Thought Leadership, Who are the Great thinkers?

Are you a “great thinker” ? Have you heard this term before? Sexy ain’t it.

You may have no idea who they are, but for me, the Bernoulli Family is a bunch of real “great thinkers”. No doubt like most real “great thinkers” they where a bunch of weirdo’s. The father hated one of his sons, and wanted to kill him, but loved the other son, so much so that he actually slept with him. The uncle created a prediction engine that computed the day he will die, and when the day came and he was feeling healthy like an Ox, he killed himself, all so that his algorithm proves true. If you read about this family, 8 of them, what they achieved is monumental. Without them, no trips to the moon, no internet, no advancements in medicine, etc… Their work in Mathematics so revolutionized the science, that with out them we will be in the science dark ages.

Great thinkers, Plato, Socrates, Newton are some. What they thought about in seclusion and in obscurity for years made a change to the way we live to this day.

Someone who comes up with a one liner on twitter is not great thinker. Someone who knows the ins and outs of wordpress is not a great thinker. Someone who can get you page rank on SEO is not a great thinker, they are people with experience or whit, they are people with opinion, they are to be respected for their work, but they are NOT great thinkers. Please, please, please, enough with the great thinker label. What have all these “great thinkers” collectively achieved? anything life changing?

I am sure there are some real great thinkers today, Who are they? Help make a list.

I’ll get you started.

Nassim Taleb.