Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
EDWARD DE BONO
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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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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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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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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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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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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