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"A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical." What if I told you I'm quoting Thomas Jefferson? Do you agree or disagree? What if I told you these are actually the words of Vladimir Lenin? Feel any differently? When a group of American college students was given the same statement and told it came from Jefferson, they strongly agreed. When the same statement was attributed to Lenin, they did not agree nearly as much. I think their reactions are justified. Because when Lenin says "rebellion," the word is red with the blood of revolution. When Jefferson says it, why it's a red-white-and-blue declaration of independence. You can't make a statement that isn't colored by context. One of the keys to successful creative problem solving is escaping context. Getting outside of the problem, throwing off comfortable assumptions, and taking the radical point of view—or any point of view other than the one that seems most logical. To do this, creative thinkers constantly challenge authority, rebel against accepted notions, and stay alert for revolutionary ideas from anywhere. The further out in left field, the better. In short, "a little rebellion is a good thing." Or in other words, the right brain works. |
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