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Publisher Penguin books, 1992. ISBN : 0 14 0126805

I am currently re-reading one of my favourite books from my teens.. Yes I did read it well before I became a parent!

The first 30 pages of it have some wonderful paragraphs, which i feel are very instumental on explaining some of the ignorance and ways of individuals…I have decided to add them here, as i love all of them!

p14.

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.and this is rather different from the challenge and protest type of thinking. Indeed some governments see the teaching of constructive thinking as the best protection against blanket protest thinking which is all that is usually availiable to mentally energetic young people who have not been taught thinking…

In the positive challenge we acknowledge the value of existing idea then we create a new idea and lay it alongside the old idea. We then seek to show that the new idea has merits and benefits

p15

Our egos become very much tied up with being right. In western cultures that is the basis of argument and the adversarial system. We are reluctant to admit defeat because of this ego problem. The result is that our thinking is both aggressive and defensive but rarely constructive.

p16

The second reason we have neglected creative thinking is very interesting indeed. Every valuable creative idea must always seem logical in hindsight after someone has had the idea, If the new idea were not logical in hindsight we would never be able to respond to it as valuable So we are only able to respond to those ideas which are indeed logical in hindsight. The rest remain as crazy ideas.

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