Celebrate Human Ingenuity

I recently travelled with a colleague and a good friend to Europe to meet with institutional investors.

At one of our many airport stops, he pointed out: “Look at all the amazing technology that goes into the front door of an airplane. It’s phenomenal.”

Bravo to my colleague. He’s bucked a modern trend.

Human beings are an amazing, resourceful, ingenious species. We are far from perfect, to be sure, but there’s so much about us that’s worthy of admiration.

So why has it always been far more fashionable to denounce our faults and misdemeanours than to celebrate our achievements and inventiveness?

We should view the human race as we view a child – with eyes of tenderness. We are a work in progress.

The occasional chastisement is necessary perhaps, but mostly we should seek to improve ourselves by encouragement.