I have heard one story about a worker who got so distracted by a mole on the back of her colleague’s neck that she was unable to think about anything else. When making important phone calls she’d see the mole and would be unable to hold back fits of the dreaded giggles. This didn’t go down too well with clients and she got the sack.
This is an extreme, amusing, (and rather unusual) case but it illustrates an important truth. Our environment can create one-track-mindedness. It can stifle the flow of new ideas. Same mole, day in day out. One track-thinking, mole in, mole out.
- from the Net
