Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

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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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Production Profit Skills
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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Avoidance System
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.

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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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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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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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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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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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Proper System
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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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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Doubt Sacred Way
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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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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Analysis Debate Description Tradition
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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Creativity Doubt Repeat
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset See
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Drive
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Dangerous Image
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.

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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.

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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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