Withholding or denying information results in intellectual vandalism.
Facing what you have been denying leads to better thinking.

That information is power is never more true than when you want people to think well. People are basing their decisions and actions on information and assumptions all of the time. When the information is incorrect and, therefore, the assumptions are specious, the quality of decisions and actions suffers.

The importance of information pertains most obviously to facts and data. But it also pertains to the pernicious phenomenon of denial, the assumption that what is happening is not happening. There are particular questions that can bring a person safely face to face with what is true so that they can think well about it. Learning how to formulate these questions is an advanced facet of Thinking Environment expertise.

Information: Supplying the facts; Dismantling denial

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