The Gist
The author, a journalist, uses well-known examples of situations where narrowness of experience limited the ability to fully understand and thus solve a problem.
What’s Good
Diversity shouldn’t be restricted to demographic features, like gender, race, age, sexual orientation or religion. It needs to be a diversity of the mind, or cognitive diversity.
Insights
Echo chambers occur when our own beliefs are regularly repeated by the people that surround us, whether in person or online.
Something to Try
There are two types of innovation – the first is painstaking and incremental, the second is ‘recombinant’ innovation – where you take ideas from different fields or backgrounds, and join them together.
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