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Stephen Downes

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Here's the core message: "A common mistake is presuming that a person's instinctive reactions are their 'real, authentic' self. They are not.... Doing and saying the first thing that comes into your head doesn't make you more authentic – it just makes you an insensitive idiot." Or in slogan form: "As Heraclitus once said 'dogs bark at things they don't recognise'. Be less dog."

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