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The First Freedom — Mastery of Judgment ✦ The news headline arrives at seven in the morning. It is alarming — or it is designed to appear so, which for most people produces the same internal effect. The nervous system responds before the mind can evaluate. By the time a considered judgment might…

The First Freedom — Mastery of Judgment ✦ The news headline arrives at seven in the morning. It is alarming — or it is designed to appear so, which for most people produces the same internal effect. The nervous system responds before the mind can evaluate. By the time a considered judgment might form, an opinion has already been expressed — in a message, a conversation, a thought that has hardened into a position before it was examined. By evening the opinion feels like a conviction. Withi