The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
EDWARD DE BONO
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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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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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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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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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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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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