Re: what's a cliche, anyway? do I like this guy?

[Peter Sturgeon <prsturgeon -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

--- Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps I'm being a bit cynical here, but I've found that something
is a cliché if you don't like the writer or what they're writing about.

True--we'll go out of our way to apologize for a friend's slips, and
pounce on the most innocent mis-speak of an enemy.

So if we're already pre-disposed to disliking a boss, colleague,
whoever, we're always hunting evidence to support that dislike, and
ignoring evidence that would undermine our negative opinion.

So how do we guard against this, as professionals and as people?

Peter


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