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💡 Interesting people deliberately gather and harvest ideas, because thinking techniques need raw material to work on.
Techniques of thinking need material to work on. De Bono stresses that interesting people deliberately stock their minds: they read widely, seek new experiences, notice details, and collect ideas. You cannot make surprising connections or fresh observations from an empty larder.
He encourages treating input as a practice — not passively consuming, but actively harvesting. Pull out the interesting angle from an article, the odd fact from a conversation, the pattern behind a news story. Store these as usable pieces, not just vague impressions.
The point is that interest is manufactured from raw material plus method. Combine a well-fed mind with the habits of curiosity, perception, provocation, and connection, and you always have something worth saying. Boredom, in this view, is largely a failure to gather and process the world around you.
Source: How To Be More Interesting — Edward De Bono