What can anthropology teach us about the way we work?
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The Value of Weird Thinking
We're all influenced by people around us in ways we can't always articulate or understand. And this links doesn't it also to Joseph Heinrich's concept of weird thinking and the value of that project or thinking which lies in understanding that we ourselves are strange to others? Absolutely. It's a universal trade of humankind that we all think that the way that we operate and think and interact with others is universal and natural and inevitable, but it never is. That point applies to highly educated Western people as well, as Heinrich explains so brilliantly in his book.
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