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STAND IN SOMEONE ELSE’S SHOES

Experience Their Point of View

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

—DR. PHIL

In order to move people, I’ve learned that sometimes I have to . . . move people. Literally. Get them out of their seats and into the streets, into each other’s neighborhoods and offices, homes, and gardens. Some call this kind of education experiential; others call it action learning. One thing I know for sure is that doing, sharing, and being together beats reading any theory. We each look at the world from our own subjective perspective, a bias that is more pronounced when the stakes are high.

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