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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

Edward de Bono

It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
EDWARD DE BONO

Amazing Attention Humor Pay
There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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Dangerous Information Social Media Thinking Yourself
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
Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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Attitude Construction Exception Moments People
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Comfort Finding Myself Old Problem
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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Better Improvement Perfection Problem Solve Way
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
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
We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Design Judgement Seek
It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Enough Lying Replacement Truth
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value
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 Education Society Tradition
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing Yourself
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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Acceptance Concept Logic Rejection Selection Thinking

It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

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