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For humans to thrive, we often need to come up with unexpected solutions to tricky problems. Yet people are often skeptical and dismissive of creative ideas…and the reason for that is found deep inside our minds.

Anyone who considers him or herself a misunderstood genius - and I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that includes roughly 98% of those reading this - knows the experience of having a brilliant idea rejected. The narrow-minded audience is incapable of grasping the visionary concept being put forward, greeting the proposal with dismissive shrugs and petty objections when they should be showering praise and adulation. Creativity is almost universally considered a positive trait in theory, but in practice it seems to make people distinctly uncomfortable.

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   I think my mind is the opposite.

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   This is resonating with me on so many levels. Gave me a realization about myself.

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   ——- Exactly why I needed to get out of the corporate world. My creativity was being smothered.

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