diversity of thought: what is it? how does it help us?

In the below beautifully animated piece titled ‘Diversity of Thought,’ Haley Randall of James River High School in Virginia uses the invention of sliced bread as a jumping off point to illuminate the benefit of learning from and building on one another’s ideas.

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“ In any day you may have up to 70,000 thoughts go in and out of your mind. Of these, most are about our social environment or ourselves. About 80% of the thoughts are negative, and the odds are that not a single one of them is a completely original idea.

This isn’t something bad about us, it’s just how we’ve evolved. The problem is that we’re so involved in our own 70,000 thoughts every day that it doesn’t give us the time to look into the ideas of another individual ”