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How to have a beautiful mind (by Edward de Bono)

• INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS A BEAUTIFUL MIND?
• HOW TO AGREE
  • The need to be right
  • The logic bubble
  • Special circumstances
  • Special values
  • Special experience
  • Sweeping generalisations
  • Summary
• HOW TO DISAGREE
  • Politeness
  • Errors of logic
  • Interpretation
  • Selective perception
  • Emotions
  • Different experience
  • Sweeping generalisations
  • Extrapolations
  • Possible and certain
  • Differ or disagree
  • Summary
• HOW TO DIFFER
  • Two sorts of difference
  • Sources of difference
  • Spell out the difference
  • Spell out the reasons for the difference
  • Accept the difference
  • Summary
• HOW TO BE INTERESTING
  • Information
  • What if?
  • Possibilities and alternatives
  • Speculation
  • Connections
  • Creativity and new ideas
  • A most useful habit
  • Exercises
  • Summary
• HOW TO RESPOND
  • Clarification
  • Support
  • Examples and stories
  • Build upon
  • Extend
  • Carry forward
  • Modify
  • Summary
• HOW TO LISTEN
  • Impatience
  • Getting value
  • Notice
  • Repeat back
  • Questions
  • More details
  • Two focuses
  • Summary
• QUESTIONS
  • Fishing questions and shooting questions
  • Source and validity
  • More detail
  • Explanation
  • Alternatives and possibilities
  • Modification
  • Multiple choice questions
  • Values
  • The basis for your thinking?
  • Summary
• PARALLEL THINKING - THE SIX HATS
  • Co-operative exploration
  • The six thinking hats
  • The white hat
  • The red hat
  • The black hat
  • The yellow hat
  • The green hat
  • The blue hat
  • Use of the hats
  • Benefits
  • Summary
• CONCEPTS
  • Why bother with concepts?
  • Pick out the concept
  • Vagueness
  • Levels of concept
  • Types of concept
  • Exercise
  • Completeness
  • Compare and contrast
  • Summary
• ALTERNATIVES
  • Better
  • Perception
  • Alternative values
  • Generating alternatives
  • Possible
  • Summary
• EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS
  • Selective perception
  • Choice
  • Adjectives
  • First reaction
  • Positioning
  • Summary
• VALUES
  • Circumstance
  • Different parties
  • Personal values
  • Organisation values
  • Quality values
  • Innovation values
  • Ecology (impact) values
  • Perceptual values
  • Negative values
  • Summary
• DIVERSIONS AND OFF-COURSE
  • Purpose
  • Boring
  • Conventional
  • Humour
  • Enjoyment
  • Summary
• INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
  • How much?
  • The Zulu principle
  • The mirror strategy
  • Knowledge input
  • Making do
  • Summary
• OPINION
  • Why have opinions?
  • Provoking opinions
  • Exercise
  • Point of view
  • Changing opinions
  • New information
  • Less complete
  • Value change
  • Comparison and difference
  • Summary
• INTERRUPTION
  • My turn
  • Ego interruptions
  • Amplifying interruptions
  • Challenge interruptions
  • Immediate or later
  • Doubts
  • Summary
• ATTITUDE
  • The battle attitude
  • The ego power game
  • The learner attitude
  • The explorer attitude
  • The constructive attitude
  • The fun attitude
  • The 'who cares? attitude
  • Summary
• STARTING AND TOPICS
  • Current topics
  • On-going topics
  • What do you do?
  • False starts
  • New leads
  • Shaping
  • Anger and emotion
  • Bored
  • Summary
• CONCLUSION
  • Enjoyment
  • Skill
• THE CONVERSATION CLUB
  • Numbers
  • Regularity
  • The organiser
  • Format
  • Agenda and topics
  • Achievement
  • Cross visits
  • Range of activites