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.
EDWARD DE BONOA discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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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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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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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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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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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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The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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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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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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