Why It Makes Sense To Think Like a Fool

Thinking like a fool can help ‘whack’ our typical thinking patterns into breakthrough ideas

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From Roger von Oech’s A Whack on the Side of the Head:

“Looking at the fool’s wildly-colored clothing and donkey-eared cap, it’s easy to regard him as a simpleton, an imbecile whose proverbial “elevator doesn’t go all…