- Mass Market Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (30 May 1967)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140137890
- ISBN-13: 978-0140137897
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 84,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book offers a series of problems in thinking that require no special knowledge and no mathematics. The problems are designed to let readers find out about their personal style of thinking, its weaknesses and strengths, and the potential methods that they never use. Being right is not always important - an error can lead to the right decision. A copy of the L-game is inserted in each book for use in the section on strategy.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book actually contains three, five day courses, each dealing with a different style of thinking. The focus of the book is directed less towards the solving of the problems, than at helping you understand your approach, and through this awareness, improve your thinking abilities.
Each course sets a practical hands-on problem, that requires no specialist knowledge or maths. Throughout the five days it builds, what begins as a tricky challenge, into one more difficult than you would have imagined being able to solve. En route De Bono offers insights into the problem solving process and pointers to areas you might explore to illuminate your own thought processes.
The three courses look at insight, sequential and strategic thinking. De Bono succeeds in creating an entertaining learning environment. Readers will enjoy the challenges set and will gain valuable insights from their thinking about their thinking.
A powerful book to improve what Woody Allen called his `second most favourite organ'.
Sample Problem
As a taster, this is the first puzzle of the book.
Place three bottles upright on the floor to form a triangle where the distance between the bases of the bottles is slightly larger than the length of a knife. Use three identical knives to form a platform on top of the bottles to support a full glass of water. No part of any knife may touch the floor.
If you like this kind of challenge and can resist turning quickly to the solutions this book will give your the opportunity to explore and learn about your thinking processes.
Each course sets a practical hands-on problem, that requires no specialist knowledge or maths. Throughout the five days it builds, what begins as a tricky challenge, into one more difficult than you would have imagined being able to solve. En route De Bono offers insights into the problem solving process and pointers to areas you might explore to illuminate your own thought processes.
The three courses look at insight, sequential and strategic thinking. De Bono succeeds in creating an entertaining learning environment. Readers will enjoy the challenges set and will gain valuable insights from their thinking about their thinking.
A powerful book to improve what Woody Allen called his `second most favourite organ'.
Sample Problem
As a taster, this is the first puzzle of the book.
Place three bottles upright on the floor to form a triangle where the distance between the bases of the bottles is slightly larger than the length of a knife. Use three identical knives to form a platform on top of the bottles to support a full glass of water. No part of any knife may touch the floor.
If you like this kind of challenge and can resist turning quickly to the solutions this book will give your the opportunity to explore and learn about your thinking processes.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
An Invaluable way to Build Self-Assurance and Confidence in ones own Thinking
9 Mar 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Edward de Bono single-handedly has introduced to the public the notion that being aware of "how we think," can be an important determinant of "how well we think."
This book is "proof of the pudding:" In a series of three carefully gradually 5-Day exercises -- "The Bottles problem:" to improve insight; "The Blocks problem:" To increase Sequential thinking; and "The L-Game:" to improve strategic thinking -- de Bono shows the reader how increasing confidence in how we approach difficult "thinking problems" can improve how well we do at solving them.
Each of the problems begins with an already modestly difficult problem and then ascends to a very difficult problem. The "end problem" is one in which, under normal circumstances the reader never would have tried to approach, without de Bono's assistance.
As but one example the "The bottles problem" is one in which the reader is required to begin on the first day to balance four knives atop four bottles, then each day he is required to remove one bottle so that by the last day the requirement is to balance the same four knives atop a single bottle.
I used this course as a "warm-up" ( and as bonus points on exams) for students from non-scientific areas, entering advanced mathematics for the first time. It proved invaluable in reducing the fear of mathematics.
Five stars.
This book is "proof of the pudding:" In a series of three carefully gradually 5-Day exercises -- "The Bottles problem:" to improve insight; "The Blocks problem:" To increase Sequential thinking; and "The L-Game:" to improve strategic thinking -- de Bono shows the reader how increasing confidence in how we approach difficult "thinking problems" can improve how well we do at solving them.
Each of the problems begins with an already modestly difficult problem and then ascends to a very difficult problem. The "end problem" is one in which, under normal circumstances the reader never would have tried to approach, without de Bono's assistance.
As but one example the "The bottles problem" is one in which the reader is required to begin on the first day to balance four knives atop four bottles, then each day he is required to remove one bottle so that by the last day the requirement is to balance the same four knives atop a single bottle.
I used this course as a "warm-up" ( and as bonus points on exams) for students from non-scientific areas, entering advanced mathematics for the first time. It proved invaluable in reducing the fear of mathematics.
Five stars.
Entertaining way to stimulate your thinking.
4 Sep 2011
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book actually contains three, five day courses, each dealing with a different style of thinking. The focus of the book is directed less towards the solving of the problems, than at helping you understand your approach, and through this awareness, improve your thinking abilities.
Each course sets a practical hands-on problem, that requires no specialist knowledge or maths. Throughout the five days it builds, what begins as a tricky challenge, into one more difficult than you would have imagined being able to solve. En route De Bono offers insights into the problem solving process and pointers to areas you might explore to illuminate your own thought processes.
The three courses look at insight, sequential and strategic thinking. De Bono succeeds in creating an entertaining learning environment. Readers will enjoy the challenges set and will gain valuable insights from their thinking about their thinking.
A powerful book to improve what Woody Allen called his `second most favourite organ'.
Sample Problem
As a taster, this is the first puzzle of the book.
Place three bottles upright on the floor to form a triangle where the distance between the bases of the bottles is slightly larger than the length of a knife. Use three identical knives to form a platform on top of the bottles to support a full glass of water. No part of any knife may touch the floor.
If you like this kind of challenge and can resist turning quickly to the solutions this book will give your the opportunity to explore and learn about your thinking processes.
Each course sets a practical hands-on problem, that requires no specialist knowledge or maths. Throughout the five days it builds, what begins as a tricky challenge, into one more difficult than you would have imagined being able to solve. En route De Bono offers insights into the problem solving process and pointers to areas you might explore to illuminate your own thought processes.
The three courses look at insight, sequential and strategic thinking. De Bono succeeds in creating an entertaining learning environment. Readers will enjoy the challenges set and will gain valuable insights from their thinking about their thinking.
A powerful book to improve what Woody Allen called his `second most favourite organ'.
Sample Problem
As a taster, this is the first puzzle of the book.
Place three bottles upright on the floor to form a triangle where the distance between the bases of the bottles is slightly larger than the length of a knife. Use three identical knives to form a platform on top of the bottles to support a full glass of water. No part of any knife may touch the floor.
If you like this kind of challenge and can resist turning quickly to the solutions this book will give your the opportunity to explore and learn about your thinking processes.
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