By taking a more detached, and less personal view of a situation:

a. we grow more open to diverse viewpoints.
b. we lose the advantage of personal involvement in the problem.
c. we have difficulty in making accurate estimations of the situation.
d. we tend to over-estimate the level of difficulty in a task.


Ans: a

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