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508a568 A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos. Edward De Bono
b93d865 Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement. real-life Edward De Bono
88da8d1 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. Edward De Bono
363aede The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate. Edward De Bono
3642eff 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. Edward De Bono
25920fd A question is a polite way of demanding something. Edward De Bono
33cf7a5 being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas. Edward De Bono
92f9511 You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them. Edward De Bono
d552891 If you understand the system you can design appropriate action. Edward De Bono
ac31650 Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests]. Edward De Bono
b296a11 To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition of a new way of looking at things. Edward De Bono
743fa60 Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves "thought experiments." You cannot tell in advance how the experiment is going to turn out. But you want to be able to carry out the experiment." Edward de Bono
1170892 Instead of waiting for our attention to be pulled towards something unusual, we can set out frameworks for 'directing' our attention in a conscious manner. Edward de Bono
39ce640 Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough. Edward De Bono
693574a There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69) prejudice logic Edward De Bono
f771119 It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64) perception logic Edward De Bono
61af3d2 It may be that Japanese culture is not ego-based like Western culture: argument has often a strong ego base. The most likely explanation is that Japanese culture was not influenced by those Greek thinking idioms which were refined and developed by medieval monks as a means of proving heretics to be wrong. (p36) Edward De Bono
89fbe1b Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that. real-life Edward De Bono
f50e372 When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive. kindness empathy positive-thinking women-s-values support Edward De Bono
ab4c026 In real-life situations apparently logical lines of argument are often (not always) based on an inability to see alternative possibilities. In a similar way the ability to think of an alternative explanation is by far the best way of destroying the arrogance of an apparently logical line of argument. Edward De Bono
49032c3 A problem is simply the difference between what one has and what one wants. Edward de Bono
3900db1 Real life, however, is very different from school sums. There is usually more than one answer. Some answers are much better than others: they cost less, are more reliable or are more easy to implement. There is no reason at all for supposing that the first answer has to be the best one. Edward de Bono
f97b543 pochti vsichko mozhe da b'de dop'lnitelno oprosteno. edward-de-bono Едуард-де-Боно творческо-мислене Edward de Bono
3f3cdf8 las fallas deben corregirse, las debilidades deben suprimirse y los problemas, resolverse. Edward De Bono
e49ded1 Kecantikan adalah sesuatu yang dapat diapresiasi oleh orang lain. Edward De Bono
f55eca3 No amount of excellence on the part of a computer can lead to the solution of a problem if the problem has been incorrectly defined by the programmer. In Edward de Bono
5d1b0e4 En la busqueda logica se aspira al mejor enfoque posible, mientras que en la busqueda lateral se aspira al mayor numero posible de enfoques, prescindiendo de su valor practico real. La busqueda logica se interrumpe cuando se llega a un enfoque satisfactorio. En el pensamiento lateral se reconoce tambien la calidad de un enfoque satisfactorio, pero se continua la busqueda de enfoques alternativos. Al final del proceso creador inicial se vuel.. Edward de Bono
92e4a07 En la busqueda logica se aspira al mejor enfoque Edward de Bono
c524b9a Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Edward de Bono
91c6ddb Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. Edward de Bono
12114b6 You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper. Edward de Bono