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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

Edward de Bono

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
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
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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Fight Lesson Listening Teaching Thinking Time
It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Amazing Attention Humor Pay
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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Attraction Beautiful Goodness Listening Love Yourself
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Creativity Focus Powerful Process Simplicity Source
Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Better Criticism Oneself
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
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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Break Creativity Experience Freedom Need Order Temporary
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
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Attention Expert Ignorance Judgement Pay Success
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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Place Problem Remove Solve
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
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat
We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Design Judgement Seek

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