Another insightful extract from the book Everyday Psychology, By Dr Steve Edwards:
‘There has never been anything more powerful than an idea in the mind of a single man.’ –Edward de Bono.
Dr Edwards comments: In his books, Edward de Bono has traced the history of inventions, great ideas and great thinkers, such as the idea of a wheel, Christ’s Kingdom of Heaven, Heraclitus’ recognition of changing reality, Darwin’s slow dawning ideas about evolution, the Copernican revolutionary idea of the earth moving around the sun, Leonardo da Vinci’s feast of ideas and inventions, Shakespeare’s influence through the word, Marx’s vision of a classless society, Einstein’s insight into realativity. Also Sartre’s leap into the flux of postulating a random existence.
Of course, the time must be right, and the thinker has to be heard. As De Bono says, however, ‘There is a sense of immortality in a new idea. Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought.’ De Bono’s conception of lateral thinking is itself receiving due recognition.
FEATURED IMAGE: Dr Edward de Bono during a lecture. (Wikimedia Commons)