Edward de Bono
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"Edward de Bono" is a Maltese people/Maltese physician, author, inventor and Organizational Psychology/consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.

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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

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Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens. -Edward de Bono
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

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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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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists. -Edward de Bono
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

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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
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It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.

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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

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