Working in the mainstream of a field can impede creative thought if one remains aware of broader context and asks deeper questions—it is not necessarily the case that being in the mainstream prevents heterodox thinking, but mainstream positions require navigating complex institutional constraints.
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Unidentified Speaker — Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in … [4O3ITKAG4_8]Evidence Quote
“largely being in the mainstream rest of my life has impeded me and because I was you know I was a fellow of Oxford College and I became a psychiatrist and director at the development mostly Hospital in London which isn't of all the institutions of mental health one of the most you know Central in the world but you know and I was salaried um but of course there was freedom to to use what one saw and think in another way”
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