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Perception: interesting people see the same thing differently
💡 Interest comes from perceiving familiar things from fresh angles, and perception can be deliberately trained.
A central De Bono theme is perception — how we look at things, not just what we know. Two people can face identical facts; the interesting one perceives an angle, a pattern, or an implication the other misses. Interest, he insists, is often a matter of seeing, and seeing can be trained.
He encourages shifting your point of view deliberately: look at a situation from another person's perspective, from the future, from the opposite assumption. This is the heart of his famous lateral thinking — moving sideways to find new entry points rather than digging the same hole deeper.
Because most people default to the standard, first-obvious view, anyone who offers a genuinely fresh perception instantly becomes interesting. The skill is to pause before the automatic interpretation and ask, 'What's another way to see this?'
Source: How To Be More Interesting — Edward De Bono