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When we look back on our childhood educations, it’s remarkable how much time we’ve invested learning information that we’ve subsequently never applied. Some would argue that the higher purpose of school is not to learn information but rather to learn how to learn. However, there’s one pervasive lesson that both school and society ­­have so deeply and so insidiously ingrained into our collective psyche, we’re largely unaware of its profound counter-­creative impact on our lives. This one belief single­-handedly curtails our creativity and inhibits innovation.
So what is this limiting belief?
The illusion that there is a right way and a wrong way... and the associated pain and humiliation when...

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Angelo Ioanides is the founder and publishing editor of Extraordinary Vision Magazine. Driven by his conviction that an image's ultimate source of power is derived from your creative vision, Angelo first published EV Mag in 2012 to serve as the outdoor photographer's source of insight and inspiration. Since then it has become the #1 outdoor photography magazine in iTunes. Discover the beauty and inspiration of EV Mag for yourself. Click here to get 13 Issues (includes the current issue as well as the next two issues) absolutely free.
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