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Edward de Bono's bio

While there are thousand of people writing software for computers, Edward de Bono is the pioneer in writing software for the human brain.

Edward de Bono was born in Malta and after his initial education at St. Edward's College, Malta, and the Royal University of Malta, where he obtained a degree in medicine, he proceeded as a Rhodes Scholar to Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained an honours degree in psychology and physiology and then a D.Phil. in medicine. He also holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge. He has had faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, London, Cambridge and Harvard.

Dr. Edward de Bono is widely regarded as the leading authority in the direct teaching of thinking as a skill.

He originated the concept of lateral thinking (which now has an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary) and developed formal techniques for deliberate creative thinking.

He has written sixty-five books with translations in thirty-seven languages. He has also made two television series.

Invited to lecture in forty-five countries and to address major international conferences, he was, in 1989, asked to chair a special meeting of Nobel prize laureates.

His instruction in thinking has been sought by many of the leading business corporations in the world such as IBM, NTT (Japan), Du Pont, Prudential, Shell, Eriksson, McKinseys, Ciba-Geigy, Ford and many others.

Dr. de Bono runs the largest curriculum programme for the direct teaching of thinking in schools. This is in use in many countries around the world.

He is the founder of the Cognitive Research Trust (1969) and the International Creative Forum which brings together many of the leading corporations in the world. He also set up the International Creativity Office in New York to help UN member countries generate fresh ideas.

Dr. de Bono's work is based on his understanding of the mind as a self-organizing information system. See I am right - You are wrong (From this to the new renaissance: from rock logic to water logic)

"Because we spend a lot of time thinking about things does not by itself improve our thinking skill.

A journalist who types with two fingers will still be typing with two fingers at the age of sixty.

This is not for lack of typing practice.

Practice in two-finger typing will serve only to make that person a better two-finger typist.

Yet a short course in touch typing at a young age would have made that person a much better typist for all his or her life.

It is the same with thinking. Practice is not enough."

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Snacks and tables of content:

1. Attention (perception)

2. The Six Value Medals

3. New Thinking

4. Thinking Broad and Thinking Detailed

5. I Am Right, You Are Wrong

6. Water Logic

7. Effective thinking course (outline). Thinking Course (book table of contents)

8. Dense Reading and Dense Listening

9. Teach Your Child How to Think TOC

10. Teach Yourself to Think

11. Six Thinking Hats (simple overview) OR Six Thinking Hats TOC (table of contents with some abbreviated notes)

12. Six Action Shoes

13. The Happiness Purpose

14. H+ (Plus) A New Religion?: How to Live Your Life Positively Through Happiness, Humour, Help, Hope, Health

15. How to Have A Beautiful Mind

16. Tactics

17. Sur/petition

18. Creativity Workout: 62 Exercises to Unlock Your Most Creative Ideas

19. How to Have Creative Ideas: 62 games to develop the mind

20. Six Frames (For Thinking about Information)

21. The De Bono Code Book

22. Edward de Bono on Wikipedia

His books can be found through a Google search, Google Book Search for Edward de Bono or at Amazon.com