Foreword

Some of the theories of scholars and other thinkers, followed up successfully, could eventually help us avoid some hardships and yield concrete benefits. The practical outlets of good theories even apply to good housing.

A likable thought can have benefits in its wake if carefully regulated and implemented within safe limits under specified conditions, and then checked to see whether it fits, how and how far. Then, if safe to use, it may be further adjusted or "polished" along the way to make life gladdening and less of a hardship. Hopefully, sane and good knowledge increases the long-run odds for getting benefits and for thriving a lot.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis,
the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion -
these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work.
But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and
is associated somehow with laziness.

- Jerome Bruner

A woman's intuition is better than a man's. - Mark Twain