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'Of one thing you can be sure. The quality of our life in the future will be determined by the quality of our thinking.'

Edward de Bono writes here of the positive future we can have if we want it. Societies, like organisms, develop certain characteristics that make further evolution impossible. At that point hallowed institutions and sacred ways of thinking have to be replaced with a more positive approach. Our negativity has to go.

Out troubles are not due particularly to villains or stupid people, but to the exercise of high intelligence within bubbles of limited perception. We need to develop new concepts: some brand-new and some slightly different. Edward de Bono firmly believes that 'we can no longer wait for drift and crisis management to carry us forward to a better future; instead we have to make a deliberate and positive effort to secure a positive future. The call to arms: not the outmoded arms of gun and bomb but the focused power of human thinking unleashed from its pettiness.

"If you take no part in the design of your future, it will be designed by others for you." (Or against you) Dr de Bono focuses on the power of human thinking -- your thinking -- and replaces the 'bubbles' of limited perceptions with new, exciting concepts that will guide you to positive approaches for the 21st century.