Clear Thinking-Bertrand Russell

Although Bertrand Russell's interview video was very short is was still very meaningful and exact. He said that is is very important for everyone to think clearly. It is important to take in facts and ideas and not allow your feelings or beliefs toward these facts or ideas be tainted by what you already believe is true. He says that when people think inexactly they are allowing their bias and prejudice to corrupt what is true and be turned into a wrong idea because of what they already believe. For example people are brought up with certain prejudices all of their lives either because of their surroundings or because they are simply absorbing what the people around them might think. So if they start taking in ideas about a new culture of people they person probably already has their own ideas about these people because of prejudices they already have been exposed to. And although it may be wrong, it is hard to change what someone already believes to be true. Also because they already believe that what they think is true they might be doing wrong and not even know it.