Toolkit library/

Perspective taking: a brain hack that can help you make better decisions

A team of neuroscience researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School describe the connection between perspective taking and innovation, explaining that perspective taking activates and develops the brain’s “mentalizing” and “exploration” networks, helping lead us to new ideas.

Article

   12 minutes

   By: Wharton Neuroscience Initiative

   Educator-prep | Lifelong learners


Making connections:

Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.

More on this topic:

Taking multiple perspectives

  Video

  3 minutes

  By: Cultivating Leadership

This is your brain on curiosity

  Video

  14 minutes

  By: Matthias Gruber, TEDx

Gaining perspective on an argument

  Tool

  10 minutes

  By: Greater Good Science Center

Principled Innovation Card Decks

  Tool

  15 minutes

  By: Principled Innovation® (PI)

An upward spiral between gratitude and humility

  Article

  15 minutes

  By: Elliott Kruse et al.

Access our collection of +200 learning materials

PI toolkit library