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Frozen thinking

Frozen thinking

It occurs when you have a fixed orientation to approach a problem.

Many experts are frozen thinkers and cannot see beyond their mastered fields, often leading to embarrassing results.

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"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." -Frank Howard Clark

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