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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. __uthentic dissent can be difficult, but it__ always invigorating,_ [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. __t wakes us right up.
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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. __uthentic dissent can be difficult, but it__ always invigorating,_ [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. __t wakes us right up.
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