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I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.
Edward de Bono
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Edward de Bono
Age: 88 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 19
Died: 2021
Died: June 9
Philosopher
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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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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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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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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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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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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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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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People should realize we're jerks just like them.
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Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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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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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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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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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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