This morning, I was trying to get my students to understand cognitive complexity -- how our brains are so fond of their ideas that as soon as they have an interpretation of a behaviour (usually negative interpretation) they seem to fixate on that interpretation rather than come up with five more possible interpretations. In order to drive my point home, I end up telling them about hunting for psillocybin mushrooms in B.C. I tell the students that we would look and look and hunt and hunt and find nothing. Then we would find one. After finding that one, we would turn around and go back where we just were and see them everywhere. I tell my students that positive or value-neutral interpretations are like that. If you leave your first negative interpretation behind and find one positive interpretation, you can usually find a dozen more.