It may be rightly said that the more pride we have, the more we hate to see it in others. Why is that? This answer offers more than just an interesting commentary on human moral psychology. What then occurs when we camouflage our pride with rationalizations and lengthy explanations or excuses? Is not the process of rationalizing starting out with conclusions and then finding which arguments can best be used defending it? In contrast, the cognitive process of reasoning tends to focus on the process moving forward where the postulation flows from the logic, not the other way around. This is an important contradistinction for us all to notice here – if you want to graduate into being a veritable critical thinker, you must embrace change despite its initial discomfort. Change is the one thing we all fear. Maybe that's the knowledge no one wants to risk having.. Never be afraid of the challenge offered by a fresh argument. Remember to suppress your reactions to the temporary emotional dissonance caused by the interaction of new data with old false assumptions. Remember that arguments themselves are not true or false; their conclusions are true or false... and each position is dependent on the soundness of logic and reasoning.