The Big Lie About Truth - Uncovering the Wrong Assumptions Leading to Poor Decision Making

Have you noticed that technology has expanded thewhat has been previously deemed untrue in the past,
way in which humans now communicate, sharemay in fact be true. It just wasn't fully appreciated at
information and collaborate to create new things fasterthe time, or was judged out of context. Thus we must
than ever before. But has the human ability tobe extremely careful in what we deem to be true and
assimilate the massive volume of information nowuntrue.
available, and the evaluate it in a reasonable time toWe will gain most from the vast world of information
make timely decisions. The answer is NO! As humansby changing the way we process information and
we were educated in the Socratic way of thinking,seek the decisions that support our objectives. It is
innovating and making decisions. Each new thoughtfoolhardy to expect to be able to do this one fact at a
expanded upon previously validated information. Thustime using the human brain. Our brain is not capable of
evolution of products, ideologies and systems wasseeing let alone computing all the complexities of the
progressive, but slow. It was also confined to factsbusiness world today and making decisions that align
previously held as 'true'.with the very small windows of opportunity presented
Today, information sharing and collaborative thinkingto us. We are best served by using business
has transformed innovation from a single verticalintelligence technology to evaluate and filter information
stream to multiple parallel streams that do not requireand present us with the best selection of options from
to follow a deductive evolutionary path. Rather thanwhich we can then apply our human decision making
expand of previous notions - new ideas can becapability.
induced from any source. This heralds a newMan has not evolved with sufficient speed to operate
framework for information development - one whichin the world that technology has now redefined. We
the human brain has not been trained to handle. Wemust merge with the strengths of technology and
distrust anything that does not relate to somethingembrace it for its value or risk falling behind into a
which we have previously trusted. We are boundedmediocre society. We have the opportunity to move
by our own view of reality - our own truth.beyond the barbaric attitudes of enforcing a single
Well guess what - Truth is the biggest con everytruth upon mankind, and instead seek to embrace a
introduced to man. It relies on judgments made byworld of creativity merged from the inputs of many
other people, in other circumstances, for otherindividuals.
agendas. Whilst there are fundamental humanWe have the freedom to move beyond the
principles to do others no harm - there is no reason forconstraints where for something to be right, everything
each of us to adopt the choices made by others forelse must be proven wrong. This type of fanaticism
their lives, and their businesses. Each individual andand arrogance has no place in the modern world. It has
organization must define its own beliefs, its own truthsbeen outpaced by higher forms of intelligence that will
and its own agendas.lead us as a global community to far higher places
Naturally, those concepts that receive support fromthan we ever before thought possible. This is one
others survive. Those that do not, generally fade intodecision technology cannot make for us, and
non-relevance and cease to exist in the present. Truthunfortunately if the human race cannot speed up its
is a judgment in a single passing moment. What is trueown intellectual evolution we are doomed to fail
today may equally be proved untrue tomorrow. Andourselves and our future.