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MESSAGE FOR WEEK BEGINNING 23rd September 2008

'thinking to be a problem

Because we often consider 'thinking' to be problem solving we do not think much about matters which are not problems. If there is a wide open road ahead of us we do not stop to consider the side roads. This is what I call 'blocked by openness'. Many things continue becuase they are reasonably satisfactory so we never think any more about them. A clasic example is democracy which is full of faults and limitations but can never be challenged. I can think of at least four ways in which democracy could be greatly improved.

Whose business is it to think about things which are not problems?

Edward de Bono
20th September 2008