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

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Author Profession: Psychologist

Nationality: English

Born: May 19, 1933

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

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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

Creativity, Look, Way, Patterns, Things

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

Time, Simple, Energy, Attention, Never

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

Mistakes, Perception, Thinking, Logic

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

Life, Hope, Achievement, Fun, Creativity

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

Change, Ideas, Perception, Thinking, You

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. Edward de Bono

Business, School, Mind, Ideas, Believe

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

Social Media, Media, Think, Information

If you never change your mind, why have one? Edward de Bono

Change, Mind, You, Why, Never, Your

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

Car, Power, Intelligence, People, Way

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

Decisions, Ignore, Attention, Someone

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. Edward de Bono

Future, You, Be Prepared, Will, Striving

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

Time, Ideas, New, Need, Right, New Ideas

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

Action, Important, Only, More, Idea, Put

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

Experience, Creativity, Free, Need, Up

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