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The art of Rhetoric is one of the oldest and most venerable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric

You're going to want to familiarize yourself with fallacies and bias, to prevent and counteract your own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Read the works of great writers and thinkers (E.g. the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations also I recommend Wendell Berry.)



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