- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (9 Dec 1971)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140214453
- ISBN-13: 978-0140214451
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 10.9 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 365,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Ed de Bono may have a bit of a reputation as a 'popular' and slightly gimmicky psychologist,
but I found this book totally inspiring when I first read it as a 20 year old, and its still a great read
now. He uses really clear analogies to explain the workings of the mind in a way that makes total
sense.
but I found this book totally inspiring when I first read it as a 20 year old, and its still a great read
now. He uses really clear analogies to explain the workings of the mind in a way that makes total
sense.
Format:Hardcover
It is regrettable that this book is currently out of print and only available second hand. It so inspired me that I when on to develop a whole theory and methodology a new psychotherapy.GOLD Counselling Second Edition: A Structured Psychotherapeutic Approach To The Mapping And Re-Aligning Of Belief Systems which helps individuals get a better understanding of how their belief come about and it is has a directly influence of the mechanism of the mind. It is in my opinion a WOW book if you want to know how perception works. Dr. Edward de Bono gives a complete new understanding with diagrammatic example that makes things easy to comprehend and absorb. I when on to write a book based on my new understanding [[ASIN:1904928005 Change Directions: Perceive It - Believe It - for which Dr. de Bono kindly wrote the foreword. Get a copy from wherever you can. I bought spares for my children for when the times come for them to know.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
A fascinating, useful model of how our minds work.
16 Dec 1997
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Mechanism of Mind is one of my most treasured books. It gave me very practical insights into how humans process information. The book is easy enough to understand, and doesn't require any previous knowledge of psychology. It's a fairly serious, engrossing read, though, even with de Bono's nice little explanatory diagrams and simple examples. (I've read six of de Bono's books, and this was the most demanding, and the one I'd only recommend to my most intellectual friends).
It compares the brain to an array of a thousand lightbulbs. All the bulbs in the array have a simple device that makes them responsive to light (from an image projected onto the array. Each bulb also has a simple device that makes them "tire" (grow dim) without stimulus).
It's fascinating how the array behaves. De Bono explains how it "processes" patterns, easily mimicing brain functions such as attention and diversion, memory and forgetting, pattern recognition (generalization), creativity and insight.
This book certainly changed my life. I understand much more confidently how my mind works, and the minds of others.
It compares the brain to an array of a thousand lightbulbs. All the bulbs in the array have a simple device that makes them responsive to light (from an image projected onto the array. Each bulb also has a simple device that makes them "tire" (grow dim) without stimulus).
It's fascinating how the array behaves. De Bono explains how it "processes" patterns, easily mimicing brain functions such as attention and diversion, memory and forgetting, pattern recognition (generalization), creativity and insight.
This book certainly changed my life. I understand much more confidently how my mind works, and the minds of others.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Fascinating mechanism.
29 Jun 2000
Format:Paperback
This is one of the best books I have read. It does not describe the mind in neurochemical or psychological terms, but hits the spot by providing a simple model of how the mind works. From that model, De Bono provides insight on how memory, learning, attention, 'pig-headedness' and insight can occur. He shows how the brain stores information and experience efficiently, but also shows how those storage units can become rules unto themselves, thereby inhibiting further clear thinking. He then describes lateral thinking, as a means of disrupting the learnt rigid patterns that can make people blind to the simplest of ideas. It is curious that this work is not more extensively discussed in texts on psychology. Those texts often describe research on how certain neurons in the brain become selected through use, but do not take the simple step back to this original work by De Bono. Another interesting interpretation of the De Bono work is provided in Cookson's book 'Our wild niche', where he coins the word mindrules (similar to De Bono's d-lines). Mindrules are experience learnt instincts, and have wider connotations for human ecology and adjustment to various niches, both natural and artificial. I recommend you buy the Mechanism of Mind. Then you will almost see how the cogs in your own mind turn. awilliams73@hotmail.com
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
The Mechanism of Mind
21 April 2003
Format:Hardcover
This book is a revolutionary examination of thinking and perception that should be a must read for anyone seeking to understand the why's and how's of human thinking. Elegant, and profound are the two terms that come to mind when describing DeBono's prose.
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