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Slow cognition for more accurate perceptions

Slow cognition for more accurate perceptions

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Slow cognition for more accurate perceptions

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- In a study I conducted, I found that only about 17% of the professionals had a high level of tolerance of ambiguity. It isn't common, but it's critical for you to become a culturally agile person. Tolerance ambiguity helps you feel comfortable and helps you succeed in those novel cross-cultural situations and with people who are demographically different from you. Maybe of a different nationality generation or even profession. If you're wired a certain way, you'll be more likely to comfortably linger longer in situations you can't fully explain or even understand. If you're not naturally gifted with a high tolerance of ambiguity, you can increase it with just a few behavioral changes. Here are three approaches you can try. The first one, practice withholding judgment. Begin by choosing a movie, food, music, something that's new to you, maybe from a different country or from a different generation. Engage with it.…

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