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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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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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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic simplicity after understanding is 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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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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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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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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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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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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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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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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Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when the world is so out of whack? Explaining faith is impossible - vision over visibility - instinct over intellect - a songwriter plays a chore with the faith that he will hear the next one in his head.
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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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Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.
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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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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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