Dr. Charles Steinmetz, General Electric's chief engineer, predicted spiritual realization would be the next major scientific breakthrough. The episode introduces the Five Laws of Thinking, starting with Observation: consciously watching your surroundings and preserving what you learn unlocks hidden abilities.
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You will never know the unlimited resources at your command until you begin to dig into them. By searching, you will discover hidden powers and latent abilities that you never thought existed. And then the closing move, which is the reason I wanted this chapter in this episode. Kravitz tells the story of a question put to Dr. Charles Steinmetz before he died. Steinmetz was the chief engineer at General Electric. One of the great electrical minds of the age. He built mathematics that made alternating current usable. When he spoke about science, industry listened. Someone asked him which branch of science would make the most progress over the following 25 years. Says Steinmark shrugged, knitted his brow, put a hand to his head, thought for several minutes, and then answered, spiritual realization. When man comes to a conscious, vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled. The chief engineer of General Electric asked about the future of science, answering, spiritual realization. That is the sentence I would put on the thumbnail of this episode. We're only about one thing, but it's so much more. Chapter three is the structural spine of the book, the five laws of thinking, and Prevett lays out five laws that govern the capacity to think and build. Every one of them is usable. The first law is observation. Man's first teacher was his eyes. Observation comes from the Latin observer, meaning to save, to preserve, to keep. The etymology carries the instruction inside it: to observe something is to keep it. Take advantage of your surroundings, observe your environment, and make what you observe a part of your knowledge.