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

Biography

Author Profession: Psychologist

Nationality: English

Born: May 19, 1933

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Wayne Dyer, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Erich Fromm, Abraham Maslow, Albert Ellis, Viktor E. Frankl

Topics

Activity, Brain, Far, Human, Human Brain, Humor, Most, Significant

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

Established, Different Way

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

New, Change, Ideas

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. Edward de Bono

Average, Separate, Thinkers

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

Through, Expert, Making

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. Edward de Bono

Most, Rather, Than

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. Edward de Bono

New, Bar, Biggest

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. Edward de Bono

Important, Idea, More

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. Edward de Bono

Complexity, Waste, Dealing

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, Reason, Very

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

Some, Doing, Achievement

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

Think, Very, Social

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. Edward de Bono

Temporary, Been, Set

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. - Edward de Bono

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

Memory, Left, Does

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

Through, Very, Other

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