On this incisive Broadway evening, anyway, you'll find yourself happy to have your preconceptions disturbed and assumptions unsettled.
But there is also just as big a fight to change minds, preconceptions, assumptions and language.
If their preconceptions, assumptions and tacit knowledge is diverse, diversity of the results would probably be enhanced.
This notion of dialogue is clearly more than a discussion or a meaningful conversation or interchange of opinions between two or more persons; participants are also engaged in observing their own thought, preconceptions, assumptions, and beliefs during the dialogue.
Training scenarios should include complex/dynamic threats that reflect the uncertainties of the real world scenarios that force trainees to operate without perfect information and that incorporate surprises that challenge preconceptions or assumptions.
And using systematic patterns, rather than the preconceptions of customers or marketers, to generate ideas liberates your thought processes from the straitjacket of existing concepts and assumptions.
Avoid stereotyping and assumptions.
Watch your words and assumptions.
Challenge your biases and assumptions.
Students were asked to reflect on their preconceptions and about whether their experience differed from these initial assumptions.
