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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
Thinking
Youngsters
Unemployed
Increased
Employment
Teaching
Percent
Five
Hours

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.
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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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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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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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Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.
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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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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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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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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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