FutureThink
How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change
Editorial Review
What happened to the U.S. intelligence apparatus on 9/11 was a failure, not of intelligence but, of imagination. The U.S. government had all information. It just couldn't see how to think about it in the most effective way. For more than 35 years, we have tracked change and told people how to act about it, the first thing we learned was that: how people respond to information is far more important than the information itself. We found that people's fear of change often led them to reject or deny information about change. So we had to find ways to help them see the real possibilities, to remove or diminish their personal traps and biases, without¾in any way¾changing the truth of the information or of the situation. Here we’ll try that with you also, you learn from the time you are born. You learn the vocabulary that shapes your thinking and the customs of your culture. The older you get, and the more knowledge you acquire, the more mental baggage that gets loaded into your consciousness. Although all that freight is necessary to excel at your daily life, carrying such a load has a negative side. It is stacked so high that it blocks your vision and limits the freedom of your understanding. It becomes a mental wall. When new information and new changes begin banging on that wall, then you are faced with a choice: you can either learn new ways of thinking and looking at that information, or you can stop learning and start ignoring that information. If you choose the last choice, you are then about to be hit with your personal 9/11.
Book Reviews
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Wisdom to Share
Never turn only to doctors, if you want to see the future of health care, or only to army generals, to define the future of war.
People generally, both professionally and personally, know so much about the present that they can’t see the future.
Only two kinds of intelligent life forms do not suffer from educated incapacity or mental baggage: aliens from another planet and children.
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Society assumes that the figure is comprised of physically able people; and that those with one or more handicaps make up the ground.
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