“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says. “It wakes us right up.”” WayTryingStillsCausesDifficultAnswersViewsCreativePsychologyPerspectiveSurpriseUniversityHearingAlternativesCaliforniaAssumptionProfessorsExposedInitialsDissentNew PerspectiveBerkeleyInvigoratingShout Out Author:Jonah Lehrer
“I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.” MotherAnswersEconomyAskingDecadesCommentProfessorsRecallsPromotion Author:George Stigler
“From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! [While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.]” DifferentStatesAnswersKnownStudentsUniversityProfessorsLaboratoryMeasurementOhioUndergraduateOhio StateOhio State University Author:William M. Fowler
“During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify conscripting all the property of all the people for use by the government to fight the war. Stalin answered by asking why they considered it more immoral and illogical to conscript lifeless property than to conscript life itself, as was being done in the United States and all other capitalistic countries. His American challenger had no answer, because there was no answer.” PeopleWorldWarCountryStatesDoneUseGovernmentPoliticalFightingPoliticsAnswersUnitedUnited StatesAskingPropertyWar Of The WorldsJustifyProfessorsWorld War IiWorld War IImmoralDeanBeing DoneIllogicalLifelessAmerican WriterAsking Why Author:Ron Paul