Moving to a Community of Interest or Practice

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Try to picture Thomas Edison as vividly as you can. Think about where he is and what he is doing. Is he alone? Psychologist Carol Dweck discovered that almost everyone describes Edison as a reclusive guy working on things by himself. However, "Edison was not a loner. For the invention of the light bulb, he had 30 assistants, including well-trained scientists, often working around the clock in a corporate-funded, state-of-the-art laboratory!" (Dweck, 2006, p.55). If Edison and other brilliant individuals need the benefit of exchanging ideas with others, surely most of us do as well.

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