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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

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Edward de Bono
Age: 88 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 19
Died: 2021
Died: June 9
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
Republic of Malta
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono
Five
Hours
Thinking
Youngsters
Unemployed
Increased
Employment
Teaching
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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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The vertical thinker says: 'I know what I am looking for.' The lateral thinker says: 'I am looking but I won't know what I am looking for until I have found it.'
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.
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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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