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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
Edward de Bono
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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
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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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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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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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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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.
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It is well known that problem avoidance is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is simple.
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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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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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