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.
EDWARD DE BONOThe winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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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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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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Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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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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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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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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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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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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Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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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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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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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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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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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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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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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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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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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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