CHAPTER four

  How to Make the Barriers Fall
  HEATHROW TUNNEL AND RESTAURANTS WITHOUT FOOD

BREAKING DOWN our associative barriers is the first challenge we face in our search for the Intersection. But how do we do it? The examples set by Marcus Samuelsson, Charles Darwin, and others can help us understand. In essence, these people succeeded at breaking down their associative barriers because they did one or more of the following things:

art Exposed themselves to a range of cultures

art Learned differently

Reversed their assumptions

Took on multiple ...

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