MAY 29

Superior Solutions

Thinking is an incomprehensibly strange art of our world. A number of books have appeared on this subject which, as well as adding to human knowledge, have increased our sense of wonder. Here are the titles of some of these books: Towards a Theory of Thinking, Dr. Rapaport (1951) The Psychology of Thinking, W.E. Vinacke (1952), Thinking, F.C. Bartlett (1958), Productive Thinking, Max Wertheimer (1959).

The research on which these books are based has brought to light much new information on the brain. One fact which has emerged is that a very important process takes place within the human mind which the psychologist call ‘brain-storming’.

A process called brainstorming has been offered as a method of facilitating the production of new solutions to problems... These unrestricted suggestions increase the probability that at least some superior solutions will emerge. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 19/357)

Researchers tell us   that when a human being is facing a crisis situation, latent capabilities are aroused which enable him to engage in this process of brainstorming. This in turn enables him to discover a superior solution to the problem facing him. Success then follows as surely as night follows day.

This is one of God’s great mysteries—how he has made our difficulties the ladders to our success.