How to Think May Be the Key to Everything

To solve any problem, you cannot proceed with the same thinking that created it. Chances are, if you are reading this blog you are 1.) Prone to think out of the box 2.) Keeping an open mind and are willing to weight all sides of a debate 3.) You are a non-conformist. Welcome to the Genius Club. Yes, you are most likely a genius for that is defined NOT as someone who knows everything, but as someone who actually thinks dynamically, observing and taking in everything around them for the learning experience.

Yes, the old saying “A” students work for “C” students and “B” students work for the government”, remains very true. The education system sucks and as it is designed to churn out conformists. I previously wrote Why Do Dropouts Do Better? In all honesty, formal education is destroying the so-called knowledge age. Asians think differently and they excel at programming far more than those in the West because they see patterns instinctively since their language when written is pictorial and they believe in cycles.

Not all people think the same way. Some think dynamically observing everything around me, whereas the majority of people think linearly – focusing only on a cause and effect level. Typically, these are the same people in government, running for politics, and filling the justice system with one-dimensional thinkers at best. They are the “B” students who act like a parrot that repeats what it was taught without original thought – the typical conformist.

The question becomes, can we train the mind to be sharper and see all the dynamics of the world around us? Is it actually possible to deliberately train thinking in a new way?

Richard E. Nesbett wrote a good book entitled “The Geography of Thought, How
Asians and Westerners Think Differently … and why.” He attributed his work to a
Chinese student who said, “You know, the difference between you and me is that I
think the world is a Circle, and you think it’s a line.” He goes on to quote him:

“The Chinese believe in constant change, but with things always moving back to some prior state. They pay attention to wide range of events; they search for relationships between things; and they think you can’t understand the part without understanding the whole. Westerners live in a simpler, more deterministic world; they focus on salient objects or people instead of the larger picture; and they think they can control events because they know the rules that govern the behavior of objects.”

To learn, you ABSOLUTELY MUST keep your mind open. You cannot research anything to prove a predetermined view. Then everything you see will only be what you want to see. Assume nothing and let the research teach you. This is the ONLY way to learn.

If we TEACH others how to see patterns and connections around us, then perhaps we can take that leap forward as a society.

Full post can be found at https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/qa/how-to-think-may-be-the-key-to-everything/
Martin Armstrong is a wise man and society should listen to him.