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Good Ideas Get in the Way of Great Ideas 45

the following simple assignment: Be a tiger. Immediately, the kids
wrinkled their noses, showed their claws, and began growling and
pawing the air. Instantly. Effortlessly.
A short time later, Richard gave the same simple assignment to a
roomful of his second-year graduate students. “Be a tiger,” he told
them. The room fell silent. They looked cautiously at one another out
of the corners of their eyes. One student asked, “Can we research it?”
Another queried, “When is it due?” Yet another asked, “What
medium?” Richard just smiled to himself and told them, “Forget it, it’s
too hard for you,” and went on to the next assignment.

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