Why not talk to a stranger about your challenge? Clever Trevor shows you how to increase the number of people you can inspire.
It’s tempting to become an “expert” in a field. Unfortunately, this expert state limits the flexibility of our thinking.
There are enough sad examples of this in history: Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize winner in physics in 1923, was sure that no one could ever (quote) “tap the power of the atom”. Equally certain was Lord Kelvin, the president of the Royal Society in 1895, that (quote) “flying with heavier-than-air machines is impossible.”
To get ideas, it’s just exciting to listen to opinions from non-experts – that is, to talk to people outside your area of expertise. Non-experts do not have enough expertise to have thinking barriers. Instead, they look everywhere for ideas. In fact, breakthroughs are often found precisely by non-experts.
