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You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

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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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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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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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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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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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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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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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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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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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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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.
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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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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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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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