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de Bono’s Thinking Course

• Note on Author
  • The leading authority in the world on the direct teaching of thinking as a skill
  • “Thinking about thinking”
  • Lessons widely used in
  • Background
  • Invented lateral thinking
• Author’s note
  • Most people think their thinking is pretty good
  • Improving thinking skill
  • Wisdom vs. cleverness
  • Thinking is the ultimate human resource
  • Summary
• Thinking as a skill
  • Intelligence and genes
  • Intelligence and education
  • The intelligence trap
  • Practice
  • Education
  • Critical thinking
  • Perception
  • The tool method
• The PMI
  • Scan
  • Interesting
  • Use of the PMI
  • Two steps
  • Practice
• Alternatives
  • About alternatives
  • The APC
  • Situations in which we may want to “do an APC”
  • Practicality
  • Alternatives and creativity
  • Exercises for APC
• Perception and patterns
  • Perception
  • Crossing the road
  • Pattern making
  • How patterns are formed
  • The use of patterns
  • Exercise
• Lateral thinking
  • Progress
  • Pattern changing
  • Humor
  • Hindsight and insight
  • Creativity and lateral thinking
  • Lateral thinking as process
  • Judgement and provocation
  • The word “ po ”
  • The steppingstone method
  • The escape method
  • The random stimulation method
  • General use of lateral thinking
  • The logic of lateral thinking
• Information and thinking
  • Operacy
  • Experience scan
  • CAF
  • C & S
  • Dense reading and dense lighting
  • Logic
  • Getting more information
  • Questions
  • Experiments
  • Selecting information
  • FI-FO
  • Two uses
• Other people
  • Most thinking has to do with other people
  • The problem of the clash system
  • Exlectics
  • EBS (Examine Both Sides)
  • ADI (Agreement, Disagreement, Irrelevance)
  • Logic-bubbles
  • OPV
  • Constructive Design
  • Negotiation
  • Communication
• Emotions and values
  • Gut feeling and thinking
  • Emotions at three points
  • Changing feelings
  • Values
  • HV and LV
  • Value-laden words
  • Awareness
• Making decisions
  • Decision preframe
  • Generation of alternatives
  • Values and priorities
  • Decision methods
  • Decision postframe
  • Emphasis on fit
  • The future
• Thinking and doing
  • Operacy
  • Three ways of doing things
  • Setting objectives
  • AGO
  • Targets
  • Strategy and tactics
  • Course of action
  • If-box method
  • Planning
  • The terrain
  • People
  • Risks
  • Constraints
  • Resources
  • Future
  • Business and daily life
• Deliberate thinking
  • What can one do about developing thinking as a usable skill?
  • Self-image
  • Time discipline (two to four minutes for thinking about an item)
  • Harvesting
  • Thinking about thinking
  • Thinking structures
  • Deliberate practice of thinking
  • Thinking clubs
  • General thinking skills
  • Formal and informal
• Summary
  • Matters of understanding, appreciation, putting things in perspective, undoing misconceptions and attempting to trigger insights into thinking
  • Creation of new words
  • Descriptive phrases
  • Specific tools
  • Practice
• Reference