The gist: We live in a world of constant noise. The power of anthropology is that it can help us listen to social silence, and, above all, see what is hidden in plain sight. To listen this way, it helps to embrace tools from ethnography about being an insider-outsider and borrow ideas such as habitus, reciprocity, sense-making, and lateral vision.

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Learning stuff was less important than learning about oneself. Exploration is not just a whimsical luxury of education; it is a central benefit.