The author of ‘The Matter With Things’ and ‘The Master and His Emissary’ calls on us to recognise that thinking in an “individual problem-solution way” not only hasn’t worked, but cannot work, because our complex systems don’t have “simple cause and effect chains”. Instead “we need to think at a bigger, broader, deeper level,” and facilitate “a-ha moments” that provide people with a different point of view on our circumstances. This means focusing more on “how” than on “what“, and forgoing our preoccupation with getting more power to instead pursue wisdom – because “if we have more power but not the wisdom required to know how to use it, we cannot help but destroy ourselves and the world.” McGilchrist challenges the idea that his approach of shifting attention, seeking fallow period reflection, and embracing wonder will only be relevant “later on”, saying “I think it’s highly and most relevant now, because if we don’t start changing the way in which we think, there won’t be that future… we have to be preparing the future.”
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