ABSTRACT
For most of us, being hanged qualifies as a novel experience, and the prospect certainly would encourage us to re-think things a bit. However, we don’t need to be perfectly literal about Samuel Johnson’s quip. When a person encounters any new situation which demands sorting out, “...it concentrates his mind wonder fully.” We all have our accepted ways of constructing the world and of interacting with it, and when these ways aren’t working anymore, the search begins for a better order of things. From this dynamic, which is stimulated by novelty, growth can come.
