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The "Start Here" Design Group
Started by Luis Colon in The deBonosociety Podcast Discussion Forum. Last reply by Luis Colon 3 hours ago. 8 Replies 0 Likes
Metaphors for the brain
Started by Gijs van Beeck Calkoen in Thinking and Culture. Last reply by Luis Colon 4 hours ago. 19 Replies 1 Like
How Can We Improve Participation and Increase Active Members?
Started by Luis Colon in The deBonosociety Podcast Discussion Forum. Last reply by Luis Colon 4 hours ago. 65 Replies 2 Likes
Misunderstanding
Started by Shamir in The deBonosociety Podcast Discussion Forum. Last reply by Luis Colon on Tuesday. 15 Replies 0 Likes
Religious Thinking
Started by Kim Jones in The deBonosociety Podcast Discussion Forum. Last reply by Kim Jones on Tuesday. 120 Replies 1 Like
Argument: Concept Exploration
Started by Luis Colon in The deBonosociety Podcast Discussion Forum. Last reply by Luis Colon on Sunday. 29 Replies 0 Likes
Dr. De Bono about Humour
Started by Peter Gluck in The deBonosociety Podcast Discussion Forum. Last reply by Peter Gluck May 10. 30 Replies 1 Like
Arrogance: Narcissism: Thinking & Action
Started by Luis Colon in The deBonosociety Podcast Discussion Forum. Last reply by Luis Colon May 10. 39 Replies 0 Likes
H+ (boast about your pons)
Started by Andy in Thinking Tools. Last reply by Adonis May 9. 16 Replies 0 Likes
The thinker
Started by Administrator in The deBonosociety Podcast Discussion Forum. Last reply by Adonis May 9. 21 Replies 2 Likes
Wondering How Things Work Here?
Started by Franis in Questions and Enthusiasm. Last reply by Franis May 9. 51 Replies 0 Likes
The Happiness Purpose (book by de Bono)
Started by Andy in Edward de Bono Books. Last reply by Luis Colon May 8. 16 Replies 1 Like
Pre-publication.
Started by Juan Francisco in Questions and Enthusiasm. Last reply by Luis Colon May 8. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Should people be taught to understand jokes?
Started by Phil Bachmann in Education. Last reply by Luis Colon May 8. 73 Replies 0 Likes
A Review for "Think Before It's Too Late"
Started by Dr. Yehia A. Ibrahim in Edward de Bono Books. Last reply by Juan Francisco May 7. 3 Replies 2 Likes
Is it true that people are not interested to invest in eforts to improve their thinking skills?
Started by Gijs van Beeck Calkoen in Questions and Enthusiasm. Last reply by Luis Colon May 5. 30 Replies 1 Like
Pushing water uphill
Started by Phil Bachmann in The deBonosociety Podcast Discussion Forum. Last reply by Luis Colon May 5. 30 Replies 0 Likes
Structured Discussion: Simplicity
Started by Luis Colon in The deBonosociety Podcast Discussion Forum. Last reply by Luis Colon May 5. 3 Replies 0 Likes
What makes a topic INVITING and INTERESTING?
Started by Zsolt Zsofka in Questions and Enthusiasm. Last reply by Luis Colon May 4. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Unemployment rates
Started by Gijs van Beeck Calkoen in Economics. Last reply by Dennis R Perrin May 2. 3 Replies 1 Like
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Luis Colon replied to Luis Colon's discussion The "Start Here" Design Group"Adonis presented the three most important things in design thinking as: Perception, Possibility, Practicality
Now, in the area of Design I understand perception to refer to how we perceive, or think, about an object, for example.
In other…"
Luis Colon replied to Luis Colon's discussion The "Start Here" Design Group"Please Note that Franis thread
"Wondering How Things Work Here" has been a collection point of questions for some time. In fact, she had intended to eventually produce a FAQ on it. There may some difference in the approach…"
Luis Colon replied to Gijs van Beeck Calkoen's discussion Metaphors for the brain"1/3 Request information specific and detailed.
Is this a call for only an possible metaphors for the 'brain'? The physical brain?
Such as "The brain is like a Storm Cloud" ... or "The brain is like a sponge"?
Do you…"
Luis Colon replied to Gijs van Beeck Calkoen's discussion Metaphors for the brain"This program is relatively new, I only noted it early last year. I only mention it here as something of possible interest for further investigation in metaphor and the workings of the mind. I've not researched it very far personally. It really…"
Luis Colon replied to Luis Colon's discussion How Can We Improve Participation and Increase Active Members?"LoL. "Of course, I could seriously go to town on questioning the question ; )"
Yes, as you say it is valuable to ask questions. Isn't it also valuable to answer questions? Of what use are unanswered questions?
I would like to see some…"
Luis Colon replied to Luis Colon's discussion The "Start Here" Design Group"Please add questions that a new member might want to have answered.Please add questions that you yourself want answers to.Please stay with questions not answers.All I am trying to do to start with is to
get as many questions listed as possible.
No…"
Luis Colon replied to Luis Colon's discussion How Can We Improve Participation and Increase Active Members?"Yes, "what if we..." is a "what if?" it isn't it?. So I'm following your suggestion of looking at "What if..." and just took it one step further to
decision.
Which of course brings us to the second point…"
Luis Colon replied to Gijs van Beeck Calkoen's discussion Metaphors for the brain"The answer to the silly doctor asking a mindless vegetable (one, in the scenario laid out) questions: You answer by the will and testament you left with your lawyer as a just in case.
Write it now! ; )
Personally I would just say, pull the plug.…"
LoL replied to Luis Colon's discussion How Can We Improve Participation and Increase Active Members?"Of course, I could seriously go to town on the question ; )
Po, the issues that people perceive as problematic are illusory and it's a storm in a tea-cup caused by an already present cabin-fever
Need anything be done at all and, if so, would…"
Luis Colon replied to Gijs van Beeck Calkoen's discussion Metaphors for the brain"Kim on your point : "We need both, don't we - you cannot have a mind without a body (we opine) because without that necessary piece of hardware (brain) to run the mind on it couldn't possibly exist. Hmmmmmmmmmmm."
Here is how I…"
Luis Colon commented on Kim Jones's blog post The Personal View"Televised course presented by Edward de Bono transmitted in the early 1980's on the BBC. This is Lecture 3 "Perception and Patterns". Part 1 of 3. That was the link. The other lectures will show up eventually. When I collect it all I…"
Luis Colon commented on Kim Jones's blog post The Personal View"Well the BBC course is not that hard to find in pieces.The first 3 I was able to get on my first try a while back when it was first mentioned are
HERE on YouTube.Easy enough. Edward is quite young. Very nice set but incomplete.I dropped the…"
LoL replied to Luis Colon's discussion How Can We Improve Participation and Increase Active Members?"She is, indeed, Adonis ... but I don't see how our choice of cruise-liner is germane ; )
If we are people who would be adherents of dBT then it is incumbent upon us to actually think that way ... so, I tried a few hats on ... used my brain and…"
Adonis replied to Luis Colon's discussion How Can We Improve Participation and Increase Active Members?"LoL,
This response kills Persephone -
The archetype of transformation.
Do you like the four seasons? Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter?
If you are suggesting a permanent Winter it will be boring. We will all get cabin fever and kill each other. LOL…"
Cal replied to Luis Colon's discussion How Can We Improve Participation and Increase Active Members?"> Some of those sound remarkably similar to some of Dr. de Bono's suggestions from HTHABM. He likes pithiness too. Though I don't think he insists upon it. Simplicity does not mean short.
I have my own different opinions about some
of…"
LoL replied to Luis Colon's discussion How Can We Improve Participation and Increase Active Members?"I'm not gainsaying that, just questioning whether taking on the job would be a profitable enterprise
Even allowing for the fact that I'm not even remotely money-orientated and get my rewards in other ways ... such as personal satisfaction…"
Asa Jomard replied to Gijs van Beeck Calkoen's discussion Metaphors for the brain"I will test the new digital brain. Why? The whole is often different from its parts. Take hydrogen and oxygen atoms , for example.
What happens now?"
Kim Jones replied to Gijs van Beeck Calkoen's discussion Metaphors for the brain"The main reason that metaphors for the brain have never been adequate or of much help is because brains aren't much use when it comes to grasping the real meat in the sandwich: the mind. Sooner or later we will have a complete or a usefully…"
Kim Jones commented on Kim Jones's blog post The Personal View"You are a champion and a stalwart, Luis. I knew that if anyone could find it, you could!
These series have clearly fallen off the map for some reason. Indeed, when I first started hunting for Burke's series, the story was the same. All that was…"
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Dr. de Bono believes in the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He has written 86 books with translations into over 40, languages and has been invited to lecture in over 50 countries.
He is the originator of lateral thinking, which treats creativity as the behaviour of information in a self-organising information system - such as the neural networks in the brain. From such a consideration arise the deliberate and formal tools of lateral thinking, parallel thinking etc.
Edward is noted by Forbes to be one of the top 20 business thinkers in the world today, and one of 200 people who have contributed most in the world to date.
Dr. de Bono believes in the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He has written 86 books with translations into over 40, languages and has been invited to lecture in over 50 countries.
He is the originator of lateral thinking, which treats creativity as the behaviour of information in a self-organising information system - such as the neural networks in the brain. From such a consideration arise the deliberate and formal tools of lateral thinking, parallel thinking etc.
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There's more than one way to slit a cat's throat
Posted by LoL on May 14, 2012 at 18:47 11 Comments 0 Likes
The Personal View
Posted by Kim Jones on May 16, 2012 at 4:30 5 Comments 1 Like
Revolutionizing Education
Posted by Phil Bachmann on October 7, 2009 at 10:08 115 Comments 0 Likes
The Love of Two Cockroaches
Posted by Kim Jones on March 25, 2010 at 10:34 38 Comments 0 Likes
How to Create an Internet Troll
Posted by Asa Jomard on May 9, 2012 at 16:24 23 Comments 1 Like
In Defense Of Fascism
Posted by LoL on May 3, 2012 at 14:30 18 Comments 1 Like
Why Is History a Core Subject in Schools?
Posted by Kim Jones on March 2, 2010 at 9:47 58 Comments 0 Likes
The deBonoSociety.com Monthly Podcast
Posted by Edward de Bono on October 8, 2010 at 17:03 5 Comments 1 Like
World Thinking Report 4
Posted by Edward de Bono on June 2, 2011 at 9:11 1 Comment 1 Like
Challenging the Provocation Schematic
Posted by Robert Joseph Fischer on June 21, 2011 at 0:08 30 Comments 0 Likes
Edward de Bono
Posted by Juan Francisco on May 4, 2012 at 10:30 20 Comments 0 Likes
Women's Wednesday
Posted by Asa Jomard on March 25, 2012 at 10:00 23 Comments 2 Likes
Catholic Religion From the Standpoint of the Tools of Edward De Bono
Posted by Juan Francisco on August 4, 2009 at 15:11 34 Comments 0 Likes
I thought I was immortal
Posted by LoL on May 12, 2012 at 22:26 10 Comments 0 Likes
PO: There is no difference between lateral thinking and critical thinking
Posted by Gijs van Beeck Calkoen on July 7, 2009 at 13:31 5 Comments 1 Like
Fix it with FICS?
Posted by Edward de Bono on March 25, 2009 at 14:30 4 Comments 0 Likes
Secrets
Posted by Free Willy on December 6, 2010 at 2:00 14 Comments 0 Likes
Why The King Must Be Respected
Posted by Kim Jones on July 8, 2010 at 13:10 20 Comments 1 Like
Healthy Thinking, Neuroplasticity and Neurotransmitters
Posted by Dr Tom Mulholland on April 19, 2009 at 2:00 12 Comments 0 Likes
MindMapping Dr. deBono's Books
Posted by Luis Colon on March 14, 2012 at 1:30 47 Comments 1 Like
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