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MESSAGE FOR WEEK BEGINNING 3rd August 2009

GG3

The GG3 (Greek Gang of Three) developed the basic software of our thinking. There was Socrates who was concerned with questions and with argument. There was Plaro who was concerned with the truth. There was Aristotle with his box logic (in this box or out of it).

When this thinking came into Europe at the time of the Renaissance, schools, universities and thinking in general were in the hands of the Church. The Church did not need perceptual thinking because the starting points were matters of faith. The Church did not need creative thinking. The Church did not need design thinking. What the Church did need was truth, logic and argument with which to prove heretics wrong. So this became the core of Western thinking. This thinking has been excellent in Science but performed poorly in human affairs. I describe this in my new book 'THINK: before it's too late'.

Edward de Bono
27th July 2009