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Inbox Insight No. 8

QUOTE

"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

Bertrand Russel, 20th Century mathematician and Nobel Prize winner

INSIGHT

You may have noticed that when you are on holiday you notice things that you have never seen before; like the colour of peoples' clothes, different plants and flowers, heady scents and novel flavours.

This may be because you are in a new environment, or may simply be because you are calm.

Stress causes the brain to focus attention very sharply, which is of course useful, but in only one way, and at specific times.

How much more could you see and experience if you were calmer more of the time? Who do you know that sees things radically differently to you?

Rather than trying to convince them of your point of view, what can you learn from them about the way they see the World?

And who knows what there is to see out there?

QUESTION

Who you know about whom you frequently think "They've got that wrong", or "How can they think that?" Are they wrong, or just really different?
What might you be able to learn from them?