The Value of Conflicting Ideas...

I don’t really like the book I’m currently reading, and it’s seriously testing my rule that I need to finish every book I start because of the pearls of wisdom I’ve found buried deep on page 200-odd of so many books. I don’t agree with many of the conclusions the author is drawing, and if ever there was an example of over-egging of the pudding this is it.

But the thing is, I used a simple version of the author’s idea yesterday, and it helped to concentrate my thoughts - not a solution itself, but rather one ingredient of a possible solution.

Just because we don’t like how an idea is presented, or who it’s presented by, doesn’t make it a bad idea. In fact, the only bad idea is the one that says we have nothing to learn from ideas that conflict with our own…