Download or read book Our Own Worst Enemy as Protector of Ourselves written by Byron Ben Renz and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much communication today argues a point. An argument, by definition, involves an attack and a counterattack not only using logic, but also incorporating non-logical feelings, attitudes, beliefs, and values. Much of the non-logical element in our argumenttaps the reservoir of unconscious understandings, feelings, expectations, and values that we have coded and stored in our unconscious minds in the form of stereotypes, schemas, and typifications. Our internal packets of stored values and beliefs may constitute our own worst enemy as they militate against creative thought and forward-looking cha.