Somewhat related: I personally found Korzybski's "General Semantics" approach to be useful when preventing myself from making unsafe generalizations - for exam

Somewhat related: I personally found Korzybski's "General Semantics" approach to be useful when preventing myself from making unsafe generalizations - for example, "This guy is always on a rant about something". The concept of time-binding is very useful in keeping an open mind in meetings so that past events do not color the present interactions unnecessarily. I know that Korzybski is now associated with the dubious NLP movement, but I was curious to know - is he taken seriously outside of NLP?