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Transform your thinking!
Is the way you think like the colour of your eyes – something you are born with and cannot alter? Or is thinking a skill that can be improved with practice, like swimming, tennis or cooking?
In this practical book, Edward de Bono lays out some simple but powerful tools with which we can optimize our thinking, decision making and problem solving. Most of the errors of thinking are errors of perception and that is precisely where these tools help.
Learn:
- How to enhance your thinking processes by developing your perception
- How to make the most of your thinking skills and how thinking differs from intelligence
- How to make decisions, and deal with emotions and values whilst focusing on the future.
Edward de Bono, the inventor or the term ‘lateral thinking’, is widely believed to be the world’s leading authority on the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He is the author of over 60 books and his methods are widely used in many countries. He advises multinational corporations and also works with educational bodies to enable individuals to maximize their thinking abilities.
From the Back Cover
Little attention is paid to the skill of thinking. There is a belief that information and intelligence are enough. Intelligence is like the horsepower of a car but thinking is the skill with which the car is driven. There are some highly intelligent people who are poor thinkers and some less intelligent people, who are better at thinking.
In this practical book, Edward de Bono lays out some simple but powerful tools with which we can optimise our thinking, decision making and problem solving. Most of the errors of thinking are errors of perception and that is precisely where these tools help.
Learn to think and take control of your life.
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Lets not lose this type of thinking, although I fear it may be disappearing fast. TV comentators, ask were are all the : 'Where are all the innovative ideas to take us out of financial crisis. A decade of left-brain thinking has reduced many to tick box thinkers. We need to rediscover De Bono type thinking again.
This book is a perfect introduction for someone new to his work. It outlines his main ideas and gives a number of techniques which fall out of his approach. It is perfect reading for the intellectual who relies on logic alone.
For creativity and how to be more so, I would recommend this and his other excellent, more detailed book, Serious creativity. Both great works which easily complement each other.
Reading 'Thinking Course' I felt that I was learning; without being taught. It felt as though the new knowledge I acquired was through my own reasoning. Everyday issues such as; the balance between information and thinking, emotions and decision making and even 'other people' are tackled in the book. I gained tools applicable to every situation.
Some educational books merely reinstate common sense facts. This books questions societies normal beliefs, such as the benefits of debating, and advances a research-based theory.
Bono's book is on a 'recommended reading' list for an undergraduate engineering course. The general problem-solving nature of the engineering discipline means that seeking out and exploring a range of solutions are everyday, particularly in the design process. But that's just one specialist application of the universal processes in creative thinking.
Having good people skills is important in our daily interactions. Being able to understand where people are coming from (their logic bubbles) is vital in business and everyday life. The logic bubbles concept if adopted, would, through greater understanding, reduce bad feelings and bring people closer together.
The book contains diagrams which help illustrate and summarize the main points of the text. Clear and simple language enables the information to be absorbed, with ease, by the reader. Examples and exercises crystallize each technique. And the abbreviations act as memory aids.
This is a handbook of life skills. Useful in the long and short term and written in an easy-to-read style.
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