{"id":250,"date":"2006-02-01T10:35:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/02\/01\/dont-judge-me-or-you-cant-judge-a-book-"},"modified":"2006-02-01T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T14:35:38","slug":"dont-judge-me-or-you-cant-judge-a-book-by-its-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/02\/01\/dont-judge-me-or-you-cant-judge-a-book-by-its-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Judge Me (or, You Can’t Judge a Book by its Cover)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, once again I’m taking Jason’s lead and doing a quirky blogger thing. Here are the instructions:<\/P>
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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences (#5, 6 & 7) on your blog, along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it. Just grab what is closest. No cheating.
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I’m doing this from the office so the books I have near me are the required reading for one of the classes I’m taking. The top book in the stack (making it the closest) is “Organizational Culture and Leadership”, by Edgar H. Schen. My initial instinct before opening up the book was that my three sentences would be very boring, dry and, quite honestly, more representative of my personality than I’d care to admit. I was pleasantly surprised to read the following:<\/P>
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“When we tell a joke, others laugh no matter how unfunny the joke; when someone breaks wind in public we pretend not to have noticed no matter how loud the sound. In other words, human society of any sort hinges on the cultural agreements to try to uphold each others’ identities and illusions, even if that means lying. We compliment people to make them feel good even if we don’t believe it; we teach little children not to say ‘Look at that fat lady over there,’ even though an obese person is clearly visible.”<\/P>
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Well, that’s kinda’ fun. Maybe this class won’t be so boring after all? Though, it now does make me question any compliment I’ve ever received.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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