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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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Edward De Bono |
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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.
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real-life
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Edward De Bono |
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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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Edward De Bono |
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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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Edward De Bono |
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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Bono |
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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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Edward De Bono |
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The ones whose light will remain with me long after they have burnt out are the ones that had grace. Because it's rare that the gift comes with grace. Some of the biggest arseholes I've ever met are the most gifted. Because it's "pretty girl" syndrome. Being gifted is like being born beautiful. You don't have to work a day in a year in your life for it. You were born with it. In one sense, it's like blue blood, money, gift, or beauty. They ..
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Bono |
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Edward De Bono |
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I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
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Bono |
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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.
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Edward De Bono |
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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.
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Edward De Bono |
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If you understand the system you can design appropriate action.
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Edward De Bono |
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I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.
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Bono |
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It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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Bono |
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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].
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Edward De Bono |
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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.
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Edward De Bono |
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I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)
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Bono |
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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."
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Edward de Bono |
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The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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self-conciousness
photographs
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Bono |
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I have a room, which is in my brain, and it's very, very, very... untidy! There is stuff fallen everywhere. There are some very important ideas next to dome very silly ones. There is a bottle of wine that was opened five years ago, and there is a lunch I haven't eaten from last summer. There are faces of children who are going to die but don't have to. There's my fathers face telling me to tidy up my room. So that's what I'm doing - tidying..
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Bono |
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It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
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stars
myths
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Bono |
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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.
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Edward de Bono |
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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.
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Edward De Bono |
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There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)
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prejudice
logic
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Edward De Bono |
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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Bono |
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The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.
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decisions
luck
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Bono |
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The past is not a place I like to visit. This project is forcing me to go there, to tidy up my thoughts. I'm not normally a navel-gazer. I've always thought you find yourself in other people. I'm visiting here. I don't want to set up house.
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past
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Bono |
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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)
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perception
logic
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Edward De Bono |
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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)
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Edward De Bono |
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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.
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real-life
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Edward De Bono |
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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.
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kindness
empathy
positive-thinking
women-s-values
support
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Edward De Bono |
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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.
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Edward De Bono |
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A degree of narcissism is necessary, I suppose, to look in the pool to see your reflection. (Bono)
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Bono |
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A problem is simply the difference between what one has and what one wants.
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Edward de Bono |
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I think that the camera loves peopke who...loathe the camera (Bono)
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Bono |
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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.
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Edward de Bono |
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pochti vsichko mozhe da b'de dop'lnitelno oprosteno.
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edward-de-bono
Едуард-де-Боно
творческо-мислене
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Edward de Bono |
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las fallas deben corregirse, las debilidades deben suprimirse y los problemas, resolverse.
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Edward De Bono |
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Kecantikan adalah sesuatu yang dapat diapresiasi oleh orang lain.
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Edward De Bono |
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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
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Edward de Bono |
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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..
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Edward de Bono |
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En la busqueda logica se aspira al mejor enfoque
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Edward de Bono |
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Thinking is the ultimate human resource.
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Edward de Bono |
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Taste is the enemy of a good death.
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taste
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Bono |