Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono is a Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth19 May 1933
judging design judgement
We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.
business design democratic
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
past differences design
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
past decision design
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
future design ifs
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
business way-forward design
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
far human
Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
great looking painter people value
A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.
powerful taken creativity
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
car way driven
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
education play analysis
Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
fighting thinking lessons
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
children giving may
I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.
mind facts commodity
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.