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
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.
teaching thinking employment
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
thinking car creative
Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.
change thinking perception
Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.
school thinking taught
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
thinking quality our-future
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
thinking ideas people
They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
thinking order littles
Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.
thinking brain perception
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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.
creativity thinking skills
Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
technology opportunity thinking
We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
fun selfish thinking
I could never be a politician because I think I'm too selfish, and I think I like to have fun.. the right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
thinking car wheels
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough...