I think that different countries of origin is an important thing, different first languages. These things have huge impacts on thinking. Which colours someone can see is effected by what language they are thinking in (proven in experiments).
Qualified, and unqualified is another important one, education kills creativity and narrows world view. Different Myers briggs types. Different ages. Different genders? Maybe but there are few women in Physics. Different sexual orientations? Maybe the idea can be taken too far, but it is valid. On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> quoted some good and bad ideas: > > >> On your own, avoid homogenous books, films, music, food, sex, media and >> people. >> > What does non-homogenous sex mean? With other people? My wife would object. > > I do not see what music or food has to do with being open to ideas. Arthur > Clarke reportedly ate a typical British meat and potatoes diet his whole > life, but he was broad minded about other things. I also know what I like > and I like what I know, as the Brits say. I listen mainly to classical > music. Most popular music sounds like abominable noise to me. Japanese > popular music, being broadcast at this moment in the annual Kohaku Uta > Gassen, is saccharine glop. > > New & unusually people -- *that* I agree with. I don't actually like > real, living people, because they are boring. I prefer dead people. In > books. People lived hundreds of years ago in different countries give a > whole new perspective. > > > >> Actually experience life by going to places you don’t usually go, >> spending time with people you don’t usually spend time with. >> > I get lost when I try to go to places I don't usually go. I show up at the > airport the day after the flight. As I said, spending time with people who > lived hundreds of years ago in Japan, Italy or Boston is an eye-opener. > > As Logan P. Smith put it, "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer > reading." > > - Jed > >
