Since June we have produced a series of supplements under the "Saab Question Everything" umbrella, celebrating the kind of independent, innovative thinking with which both Saab and The Independent – and you, our readers – are associated.
We've aimed to inform, explore different points of view and provoke debate, encouraging our famously intelligent and creative readers to share their views.
Thank you to all of you who voted for your favourite article from the three winners' submissions from each edition of the Saab Question Everything Series.
The overall winning Independent Thinker as voted for by you is Jonathan Yee, with his article Positive energy – The Way Ahead. Jonathan is British-born Chinese, and lives in London where he works in finance. He is a keen traveller and hopes to visit all visit all seven continents one day!
Michael Brady was chosen at random from all those who voted for their favourite article and wins an iPod nano.
Modern visionaries
The minute the word "visionary"
is mentioned,
some interesting assumptions
tend to come up.
Current lists of 20th century
visionaries include many political
leaders such as Gandhi or Mandela,
not to mention ecologists and even
economists; there
are, notably, no musicians or artists.
Most seem to be altruistic to a degree,
concerned for the poor, the underprivileged,
the planet.
Positive energy
As the leaders of the world
agonise over the current
economic crisis, one message
is becoming increasingly
clear: in order to overcome
a crisis, we must all work in united
and co-ordinated way. This message
could be applied to any crisis, and not
least to the world's mounting energy
problems.
Yes, we can!
When I read my brief
for this article, I
laughed. I had only
recently been chatting
with a friend
about the whole "positive thinking"
thing, about how we both think that
much of it is just a money-making fad.
And then here I was being asked to
write an article about whether or not
positive thinking could solve the
world's problems. What could I do?
Well, be positive of course.
Discover the inspiration behind these and all our reader contributions by catching up on the previous three issues of the Saab Question Everything Series – "Triumph Through Adversity", "Biofuels" and "Visionaries" – below.
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