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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

Edward de Bono

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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Existence Ideas Immortal Spring
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 Important Place Problem System
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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Business Discussion Feeling Logic
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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Attention Deal Mental Energy Necessary Simplicity Time
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Bad Creativity Doubt Essential Man Need Success
We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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Information Need Substitute Thinking
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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Count Defend Enough Innovation People System
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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Children Live News People
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Heart Hurt Known Myself Pain Walk
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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Future Possible Preparation Strive
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
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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Allow Analysis Description Purpose Science
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills

Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

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