JIM HELBLING
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
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- Sep 15, 2026
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- Jul 13, 2026
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Helbling: Critical thinking is critical (opens the original)
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While discussing a recent column, a friend commented on a bumper sticker he saw which read: âCritical thinking: The other national deficitâ. He voiced his concern that the people who really need to read my columns do not because it requires them to think about who they are and how they became the people they are, and that takes some (possibly uncomfortable) self-reflection and work. I share my friendâs concern to some extent, as I really have no way to gauge whether my columns are reaching
Helbling: Embrace what now? (opens the original)
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A couple of columns back I included âEmbrace the bad timesâ as one of the recommended actions to deepen your curiosity. I can just imagine some of you reading that and thinking, âYou want me to embrace what now? Bad times? Like many of us are experiencing right now throughout the country? I donât think so. I want to just push these hard times right on down the road as quickly as I can.â Or maybe that was me thinking that. At any rate, I said at the time that the subject warranted futur
Helbling: Can we have cereal bias? (opens the original)
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During breakfast recently, my wife and I were discussing our favorite cereals when I had a thought (dangerous, I know): when we have a favorite cereal or anything else, we have a bias toward that something. Bias is typically a negative word, implying prejudice (as I discussed in my column, âJudges, judges, everywhereâ), but does it have to be? To see if my cereal analogy was correct, I checked with the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, which gave this definition for bias: âan inclination
Helbling: Our experiences and our values (opens the original)
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In my first column, âWhy Prescott is worth fighting for,â I invited Courier readers to think back on the sights, sounds and smells that accompanied that moment when you knew you were going to make Prescott your home. In other words, I asked you to recall an experience that led you to choose Prescott as your place to live, work, and possibly raise your family. Now I am going to ask you to go back even further, back to your early childhood days when you were first learning about the world and
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