America Is Not Just A Country, It's

Simplicity Before Understanding Is Simplistic; Simplicity After Understanding Is Simple.

Unfortunately, Our Existing Traditional Thinking Habits Insist That You Must Attack Something And Show It To Be Bad Before You Can Suggest A Change. It Is More Difficult To Acknowledge That Something Is Excellent And Then To Ask For Change Because Although It Is Excellent, It Is Not Enough.

Some People Are Aware Of Another Sort Of Thinking Which... Leads To Those Simple Ideas That Are Obvious Only After They Have Been Thought Of... The Term 'lateral Thinking' Has Been Coined To Describe This Orther Sort Of Thinking; 'vertical Thinking' Is Used To Denote The Conventional Logical Process.

(...) Being Right All The Time Acquires A Huge Importance In Education, And There Is This Terror Of Being Wrong. The Ego Is So Tied To Being Right That Later On In Life You Are Reluctant To Accept That You Are Ever Wrong, Because You Are Defending Not The Idea But Your Self-esteem. (...) This Terror Of Being Wrong Means That People Have Enormous Difficulties In Changing Ideas.

The Awful Thing Is That You Can Never Be Aware Of What You Are Not Aware Of.