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April 15, 2015 / Marjorie Larner / What We Can Do

“If you want to be original, then you have to get past the first layer of predictability.”

Charlan Nemeth, Professor of psychology at UC Berkeley

When we are exposed to a differing viewpoint, it catches our attention as we try to understand it. This expands our creative potential as our minds have to open up to assess the validity, question our assumptions, try out the possibility.

 

 

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