(Credit: Getty/Chip Somodevilla) Obsessed with some particularly obnoxious politician or just bothered by someone persistently awful in your life? If so, take the opportunity to do some exploring and learning, but beware. There are trapdoors awaiting you in your exploration, popular notions and habits that will stop you from really wondering. Here’s a guide to the trapdoors to avoid, and sidestepping them, the places worth exploring. First the trapdoors. It’s all you. Trapdoor #1.