Dalai Lama Foundation Study Circle Montreal

An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many. — Albert Einstein

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Inspiration of the Day:
“When Pablo Picasso, the Spanish artist, was a schoolboy, he was terrible at math because whenever the teacher had him write a number on the chalkboard, he saw something different. The number four looked like a nose to him and he kept doodling until he filled in the rest of the face. The number 1 looked like a tree, 9 looked like a person walking against the wind, and 8 resembled an angel. Everyone else in the classroom saw numbers on the chalkboard; Picasso perceived a variety of different images. The connection between perspective and creative thinking has to do with habituation and over-familiarization. Where creative thinking is concerned, that is the irony of the skill: the more adept you are at something, the less likely you are to look at it in a different way.” In this article, author Michael Michalko explores the power of metaphors.
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Be The Change:
On the topic of ‘Beginner’s Mind,’ this passage starts by proposing an interesting TV experiment: “I want you to watch TV with acute awareness, mindfulness, and precision …”
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**Share A Reflection**
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