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
simple perception why-not
The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?
simple thinking ideas
Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process.
simple simplicity understanding
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
simple attention waste
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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.
teaching thinking employment
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
knowledge learning use
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.