An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
From Edward de Bono
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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.
If you never change your mind, why have one?
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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.
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