In this book, there is this chapter about "Other People" which talks about when there is a clash of viewpoints, many a times, people will start to attack each others' viewpoint in order to devalue the viewpoint held by the other party. Somehow by doing so, it feels as though you are doing it the "right" way. Most people fail to see that by attacking others' viewpoint, it doesn't make you any more right than the other party. It is this very mindset that if the other party is wrong means that you are right that makes changes hard to come by. Changes don't occur till the time when the existing idea is proven inadequate. But quoting from the book "This is the most complete nonsense imaginable. An idea may have been a good one in its time and may still be a good idea.. But this does not preclude the possibility of a much better idea." So it is with this idea that the road pricing system has changed from ALS (Area Licensing Scheme), to an ERP gen 1, and soon to be gen 2 in a short span of about 20 years.
ALS: (sign for restricted zones)
ERP: GEN 1 Gantry
ERP: GEN 2: I guess no gantry will be used since gonna be using satellite.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/lta-issues-tender-for/1391798.html
Our negative thinking might also have caused many good idea to go down the drain:
"An idea may be 90% right and 10% wrong (or inadequate)." Instead of correcting that 10%, negative thinking caused us to focus on the inadequacy of that 10% and then "imply that anyone who could have put that forward must be an idiot and it therefore follows that the other 90% was thought up by an idiot and is therefore ridiculous."
Think positively, act constructively!
P.S.
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