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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

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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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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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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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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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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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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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