about Septoes

Dear Edward and friends,

I think that the your idea of SEPTOES - as units of wisdom is a
wonderful one and I don't know where it is (if) continued, extended.
I am trying to write septoes- I feel they are a disciplined form of thinking, elegant and useful.
What do you think? There are millions of haikus but few septoes.
Best wishes,
Peter

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Permalink Reply by Andy on April 6, 2009 at 18:34
Hi Peter, It used to be here: http://www.yourwisdom.ie
Permalink Reply by Peter Gluck on April 6, 2009 at 19:20
Dear Anders,
Thanks! I know this, but after gathering some 50 septoes- it ceased to work.
Now I am not able to connect to it at all.
Peter
Permalink Reply by Andy on April 6, 2009 at 20:33
Dear Peter,
I think de Bono will get it fixed as soon as he finds out that the website doesn't work anymore. Try leaving him a message in his profile. I'm unable to connect to it too.
Anders
Permalink Reply by Peter Gluck on April 6, 2009 at 21:01
I will try...I think it is not a high priority problem now.
I am very happy that we have here more possibilities to discuss
about lateral thinking and many other ideas of DeBono.
I wrote a lot about his ideas in my newsletter Info Kappa-
http://info.kappa.ro- it is a weekly publication dedicated
to websearch and real life problem solving. It is in Romanian:
today issue no 346, subject FEAR was published.
Permalink Reply by alan moran on June 16, 2012 at 12:04

both websites appear to have been removed.

Permalink Reply by Peter Gluck on June 16, 2012 at 12:12

Dear Alan,,

you can find many Septoes on my Blog Ego Out
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com- some by me,
some by my blog associate Georgina.
My list of 100 Septoes is almost completed.
Peter

Permalink Reply by alan moran on June 17, 2012 at 23:21

Thank you

Permalink Reply by Kim Jones on June 17, 2012 at 2:15

Septoes may be considered the son of Septines. "Septoe and Son" in reverse?

Permalink Reply by Peter Gluck on June 17, 2012 at 5:02

I think we have to ask Edward de Bono who
has created both Septoes and Septines if
these are feminine or masculine and if they
are related in some way.
I was very contrariated seeing that Septoes have
not generated a strong meme like say haikus.
They are not popular, even for their creator.
It seems it is difficult to tell something really relevant
with only 7 words (you can replace 7 with any other
number).
Peter

Permalink Reply by Peter Gluck on June 17, 2012 at 5:29

The raw list- my Septoes.

1.The Universe feeds our insatiable curiosity forever
2. The Universe is obsessed to be interesting.
3. The world is simultaneously chaotic and ordered.
4. Evolution is the inherent perfectibility of Nature.
5. The Good and Evil are siamese twins
6. Good could take creativity lessons from Evil.
7. Greatest evil in world- collective, inheritable sin
8. First remove Evil then start building good.
9. Life is hungry matter and edible too.
10. People lie because most truths are bad.
11. Lies are shortcuts from problems to solutions.
12. Means are swallowing aims and replacing them.
13. Bad septoism is seven words not wise
14. All great crises are crises of thinking
15. Wisdom of crowds lies in their diversity
16. Brainair- four parts realism, one part imagination.
17. Future is bright but not for Humanity.
18. Human rights are threatened by Human Privileges
19. Even the best religions are mainly suicidal.
20. We live in memecracies, ideas dominate us.
21. In need, solidarity becomes liquidarity even gasidarity.
22. Greek Gods ruling today: Ares, Hermes, Koalemos.
23. Human nature plus idealistic theories equal disaster.
24. Unlimited greed and ignorance lead to disaster.
25. The essence of human nature is discontent.
26. Perfectionism is dangerous, we need sustained perfectibilism.
27. I am not perfectionist but maximalist-perfectibilist
28. Astrology offends Human Intelligence but is Business
29. My favorite metasport is swimming counter-stream.
30. Old researchers need infinite and impossible tasks
31. I am a stubborn claustrophilic old man,
32. My unique brain has two left hemispheres.
33. My philosophy infinite interestingness and neutral negativity.
34. My work: new energies and problem solving.
35. My values: independent thinking and humanitarian spirit.
36. My religion: human evolution to godlike beings,
37. My aim: to solve humanity’s real problems.
38. My incurable illness is the Cassandra Syndrome.
39. Initiative is the greatest differentiator of humans.
40. Save the world with the Seriousyne vaccine!
41. Victories over your former Self are triumphs.
42. The Future Shock was amortized by irrationality.
43. The problems are here to be solved
44. Always find the Solution outside the Problem.
45. Thinking people have problems, the others troubles.
46. Religion can not be displaced, only replaced.
47. Parts and Whole is the insoluble problem.
48. NO is always more significant than YES.
49. You have success because you had success.
50. Idealism has three opposites materialism, realism and
pragmatism,.
51. Atheism is the last step before negatheism.
52. Scipiology: how to convert disasters in triumphs.
53. Impotence in problem solving is called PROBLETENCE.
54. The cult of celebrities is the Disaster.
55. EGO-OUT: intellectual values lost when somebody dies.
56. Modes of thinking: prelogical, logical, superlogical, postlogical.
57. Anti-vaccine: perfect evil attacks imperfect good.
58. Sensational a cheap substitute for real knowledge.
59. Intelligence the ability to NOT mix viewpoints.
60. Good thinking- rejecting memes, addiction to facts.
61. The most common crime is attention theft.
62. Intellectual and bigot is like virgin whore.
63. Populism is moving the Center to Periphery
64.. Solar eclipses are rare, intellectual eclipses permanent
65. We have to choose: decelebrization or decerebelization?
66. Anti-intellectualism is more against intellect than intellectuals
67. The 21st Century is the 12th, resurrected
68. This new century has irreparable birth defects.
69. The world is grosso-modo an inverse meritocracy.
70. The world economy- a myriapode with Achilles Heels.
71. Sacred is something you are allowed to kill for.
72. Avoid using intellectual aphrodisiacs in marketing, politics.
73. Moneytheism is senseless, limitless adoration of money.
74. Cultural high jump: bury the bar deeper!
75. Scam: one holiday equals 50 miserable everydays.
76. Starts the terminal phase of chronic anachronism.
77. Do not criticise theories, reality is erronated!
78 Possibility is NOT probability is NOT certainty.

+1 Good taxonomies reveal deep cause-effect relationships.
+2 Differences in opinions attract only smart people.

78. Patent literature is mainly mythology, not history.
79. Geography is destiny, history is a prison
80. Autodestructive adoration: you become what you adore.
81. Even very high intelligences are NOT additive.
82. Natural selection builds, unnatural counterselection destroys
everything.
83. Kleptocracy is the most natural form of government.
84. Geniuses are specific, no global genius exists.
85. The stupidity of geniuses can be catastrophic.
86. Religions are shortcuts between Questions and Answers.
87. “Fan” the dirtiest form of mental slavery.
88. Chronology is rather annoying, kairosology most interesting.
89. Implementation is decided by abuse not by use.
90. In my life, obstacle was usually a verb.
91. Recipe of humor: sex, stupidity shit, sadism. surprisingly.
92, A great Universe with disproportionately slow light.
93. Schoolimg help grown-up, while media forces grown-down.
94. Dumbing down people is the greatest megabusiness.
95. Quantity of life eats quality of life/
96. Intolerance kills people, tolerance destroys the Society.
97. My strong certainty: certainties can kill us.
98. People will believe anything except the truth.
99. Solutions are sometimes accomplices of the problems.
100.Too few words to say something intelligent.

I have no problems with Septoes but this Project:
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2012/02/problem-solving-quasi-despe...
is a disaster, I need more translations, the Rules are only in 19 languages.
Missing Japanese, Arabic, languages of India, Esperanto etc.
Peter

Permalink Reply by alan moran on August 9, 2012 at 0:06

101-104
you are tomorrow what you eat today
you are tomorrow what you do today
you are tomorrow what you think today

it normal thinking doesn't work, think different

Permalink Reply by Peter Gluck on August 9, 2012 at 8:04

Dear Alan,

Very nice, thank you! I have some small doubts
re the first Septoe which has to be understood VERY
metaphorically. And it is difficult to interpret it, taking in account
the myriads of gastronomic perversities and extremisms.
And all the effects are a bit too fast, I think 24 hours are
not enough for such radical metamorphoses.

Perhaps- but it is up to you "normal" could be replaced
with "standard" or something like this.
Peter

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