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Edward de Bono
English
Psychologist
Born:
May 19
,
1933
Creativity
Humor
People
Perception
Thinking
You
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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
Edward de Bono
You
Change
Perception
Thinking
Emotion
Lead
Studies
New
Ideas
New Ideas
Due
Error
Your
Shown
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Edward de Bono
Perception
Mistakes
Thinking
Logic
Rather
Most
Than
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Edward de Bono
Creativity
Way
Out
Look
Involves
Established
Different
Order
Breaking
Patterns
Different Way
Things
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward de Bono
Life
Hope
Great
Achievement
Creativity
People
Everyone
Possibility
Worthwhile
Some
More
Gives
Idea
Sort
Because
Makes
Doing
Motivator
Interested
Interesting
Fun
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono
Humor
Significant
Most
Brain
Human
Human Brain
Far
Activity
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Edward de Bono
You
Opportunities
Wait
Will
Crowd
Occur
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
Edward de Bono
Creativity
Simple
Important
Else
Focusing
Willingness
Bothered
No-One
Taken
Taken For Granted
Powerful
Look
Motivation
Source
Very
Normally
Stop
Process
Aspect
Granted
Things
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
Edward de Bono
Truth
Argument
Reveal
Create
Meant
If you never change your mind, why have one?
Edward de Bono
You
Change
Mind
Never
Your
Why
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
Edward de Bono
Time
New
Ideas
New Ideas
Biggest
Bar
Right
Need
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
Edward de Bono
History
Ignorance
Words
Better
Insist
Sense
Perceptions
Freeze
Because
Doing
Continue
Frozen
Then
Should
Use
Moment
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward de Bono
You
Business
School
Mind
Will
Believe
Analyze
See
Totally
Give
Data
Only
Wrong
Almost
Almost All
New
Ideas
Most
Executives
New Ideas
Scientists
Graduates
Unfortunately
Business School
Many
Prepared
Belief
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.
Edward de Bono
Future
You
Will
Predict
Appropriate
Striving
Possible
High
Futures
Must
Be Prepared
Cost
More
Various
Instead
Deal
Accurately
Cannot
Then
Lower
Flexible
Prepared
Right
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
Edward de Bono
Thinking
Increased
Percent
Hours
Employment
Five
Unemployed
Just
Youngsters
Teaching
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono
Pay
Pay Attention
Someone
Through
Simpler
Attention
Knowing
Judgements
Making
Making Decisions
Expert
Decisions
Succeeded
Ignore
Who
A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.
Edward de Bono
Great
Eyes
People
World
Vision
Value
Perception
Looking
Other
Else
Everyone
Our
Everyone Else
Way
See
Through
He
Great Value
His
Very
Get
Craftsman
May
Different
Which
Painter
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.
Edward de Bono
People
Young
Sense
Think
Danger
Identity
Self-Image
Any
Dependent
Being
Young People
Acquire
Themselves
Thinkers
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
Edward de Bono
Creative
Creativity
Thinking
Nurtured
Mystical
Idea
Talent
Terms
Skill
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
Edward de Bono
Success
You
Yourself
Field
Mad
Rapid
Rapid Growth
Find
Talented
Very
Little
Successful
Lucky
Growth
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.
Edward de Bono
Mind
Humor
Characteristics
Significant
More
Fact
Cheap
Most
Very
Than
Human
Commodity
In Fact
Far
Human Mind
Reason
Actually
People should realize we're jerks just like them.
Edward de Bono
People
Like
Just
Them
Realize
Should
Jerks
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono
Best
Our
Defined
Between
Talents
Expectations
Difference
Unhappiness
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Edward de Bono
Car
First
Unlikely
Faults
Perfect
Removing
Motor
Motor Car
May
Produce
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
Edward de Bono
Perception
Joke
Important
Think
Changing
Way
Switch
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.
Edward de Bono
You
Dangerous
Social Media
Internet
Think
Enough
Danger
More
More And More
Very
Get
Gets
Just
Information
Social
Notion
Media
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