I do an exercise with my students. I call it the ‘Forest Gump” exercise. I bring in a box of chocolates and pass them around the room, asking them to choose one.“How did you choose your chocolate?” I ask them. Did you choose a familiar one? Did you pick by shape or decoration or color? Did you go after something that you thought you wanted only to find out that you were disappointed with your choice or did you just grab one, confident that whatever you chose would be fine? Did you let the chocolate choose you?
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