Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
EDWARD DE BONOThe 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 listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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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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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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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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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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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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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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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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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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