The recent crash of the returned Genesis space capsule emphasized the high cost of space exploration. This particular venture cost $260 million and over the last thirty years some $300 billion have been spent on space exploration. The Genesis mission was designed to tell us about the solar wind and provide information about the formation of the earth.
All this is well worth doing in terms of scientific enquiry, prestige, military might, endeavour etc.
How much do we spend on the most important aspect of our human existence? Nothing is more important than human thinking because that determines everything else. The quality of our future will depend directly on the quality of our thinking.
How about a $100 million Human Thinking Project?
We do not do this because we believe that nothing can be done. This is not so.
Thinking taught for five hours to unemployed youngsters increased the employment rate five hundred per cent.
A company that used to spend thirty days on multi-national project discussions, now do it in two days – through better thinking.
A small company in Canada saved $ 20 million the first year they used new thinking techniques.
In South Africa a group of workshops generated 21,000 ideas one afternoon using just one of the lateral thinking processes.
Most people do not realize the huge progress that needs to be made in human thinking – and can be made.
So let’s treat HTP (Human Thinking Project) with the seriousness usually reserved for armament investment.
