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=**The right environment**=
 * idea exploration!**=Source: Greenwald (2002)

(See Graphic 19)

Whatever the setting, work, academic, personal life etc. PBL must, above all else, be practiced in a safe haven for exploring ideas and taking intellectual risks.

Persistence: “stick-to-itive-ness”, motivation to learn and find out. Respect for other viewpoints: willingness to admit being wrong; revising one’s own ideas to incorporate those of others. (Original page by Mary Frangie)
 * Intellectual curiosity:** asking interesting questions, delighting in new experiences, liking to probe and being informed.
 * Intellectual honesty:** accepting statements as true even when they don’t agree with one’s position.
 * Open-mindedness:** willingness to consider a wide variety of beliefs.
 * Viewing errors as stepping-stones:** recognizing how errors can lead to new learning and understanding.
 * Toleration of ambiguity:** ability to delay closure, defer judgment, asking such questions as “how else can this be interpreted?”
 * Humor and playfulness:** finding the fun in learning, manipulating ideas in whimsical ways to gain insight and perspective.