Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Selection and Weirdo stereotyping

[Judy Baxter (BAXTER]

Rob wrote:
<Man the world seems to work in circles these days. I just finished teaching
a workshop to a group about this VERY thing. I call this the perception gap.
We all are ego-centric at times, and it is common to beleive that how you
think about things is the "right" way, and the "normal" way and that others
that do not think this way are abnormal. This drives a lot, include most all
of your assumptions and inference about another person.
>

Yes!!
Lately, I've been asked a number of times, what was the most surprising thing 
I've learned living in cohousing (or some variant of the question)

Mostly, I say - it's amazing how many other points of view there can be about 
some issue where I think it is "obvious" how to go.  I never would have thought
...

very educational.

Judy

Judy Baxter, Monterey Cohousing Community,(MoCoCo) Twin Cities Area, Mpls.,MN
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