Have You Investigated Great Minds?

Are you an idea person?  What is your best idea so far this year?  Once you get an idea, how long does it take you to act on the idea?

There has never been anything with more powerful potential than an idea in the mind of a single person.  Einstein was a man who ate like other men and washed his face like other men.  Yet, beginning with the thinking of his mind we have been able to top the ultimate source of energy in nature.  Ideas are a dime a dozen.  It’s the idea that is acted upon which can make a difference.  I was reading a book recently about the thirty minds that shaped our civilization.  How many of the Great Thinkers do you recognize:

Jesus             Aquinas           Newton           Clerk Maxwell

Moses           Columbus        Rousseau         WilliamJames

Confucius  Machiavelli         Kant                Nietysche

Plato             Copernicus      Malthus           Pavlov

Aristotle       Luther             Clausewity      Freud

Euclid           Bacon              Darwin            Einstein       Wiener

Augustine  Descartes           Marx Keynes   Sartre

There are also many women who have impacted the world. See how many of these Great Thinkers you recognize: 

Sappho                                         Eleanor Roosevelt

Hildegard of Bingen                   Karen Horney

Sacajawea                                    Ruth Benedict

Margaret Fuller                            Anna Freud

Harriet Beecher Stowe                Margaret Mead

Susan B. Anthony                      Hannah Arendt

Elizabeth Blackwell                   Rachel Carson

Emma Curtis Hopkins              Mary Leakey

Marie Crie                                    Virginia Satir

Maria Montessori                       Shirley Chisholm

Mary McLeod Bethune             Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Helen Keller                                 Barbara Jordan

There you have it – 54 great thinkers.  How many of these individuals and their contribution to the world do you recognize?  Whose ideas make the most sense to you?  How have those ideas impacted your life?  Who are some of the other great thinkers you would like to investigate?  Do you want to be a great thinker?  What do you want to leave behind to grow?

Every day as you decide how to be productive, evaluate all of your ideas and then take action.  What career ideas will you use today to maximize your potential?  What book will you read today to improve your productivity?  What audio or video cassette will you play today to upgrade your competence?  What education course or seminar will you experience to invest more deeply in career knowledge?

Decide now to invest in great ideas and then, watch what happens!

Affirm:

“I now invest in great ideas of great
thinkers, including mine.”

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