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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
Principlev1PR-203

Identify and name your specific avoidance substitutes…

Identify and name your specific avoidance substitutes and rationalization patterns to make unconscious resistance visible and interruptible.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Automaticity Without Conscious Control (automatic processes), Linguistic Structuring of Thought (language structures thought), and Thoughts and behaviors can be separated from core identity… (thoughts separable from identity). This principle prescribes externalization and labeling to convert automatic patterns into observable objects.