Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever enlarging life.

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?