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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

Edward de Bono

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat
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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Break Creativity Experience Freedom Need Order Temporary
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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Focus Important Question Simplicity Way
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
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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Creativity Ideas Nurture Practice Talent Thinking
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Character Discover Ideas Intuition Solution
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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Beyond Doubt Improvement Right Sacred Way
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Analysis Data Ideas Production
We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Design Judgement Seek
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Better Ignorance Moments Oneself Word
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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Creativity Information Mathematics Process Thinking
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Complex Distraction Effort Simplicity
You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Different Hole Oneself
Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Better Criticism Oneself
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Aspect Creativity Important Motivational Powerful Source Willing

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