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Dennis Perrin The Sheepla Thread

With the natural thinking taking place on the site, we could have an Area of Agreement here

Agreement may be more politically correct than disagreement
Disagreement may give a feeling of being more right, or of winning an argument
Agreement may be for wimps
Disagreement may encourage robust challenge or even bullying
Agreement may give rise to humour
Disagreement will give a different kind of satisfaction
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Added by Dennis Perrin on August 26, 2010 at 9:00pm — 10 Comments

david paul caruana head massage

can anyone out there let me know if lateral thinking has anything to do with these people who can instinctively rub and massage little boys heads.who have behaviour problems,to make them feel better? Continue

Added by david paul caruana on August 23, 2010 at 3:47pm — 5 Comments

Danny Stevens Really Using the Tools

There is a reason for having the Lateral Thinking tools, that is one of the value of formality. As Edward himself has said many times, people will often think they are using the tools when in fact they are not. Using the tools formally ensures that they are actually used. Similarly with the Six Hats or the CoRT and DATT tools.

As an example, many people suggest they used the red hat in a group setting by asking people what they feel about the issue. The red hat is about f… Continue

Added by Danny Stevens on August 23, 2010 at 1:22am — 1 Comment

Zander Powell Edward de Bono live in Cape Town, South Africa!

Interested in seeing Dr De Bono present live in Cape Town? This could well be the last opportunity to engage with Dr De Bono in a public event in South Africa!

Join The Progress Conference for a discussion with Dr De Bono on the Evolution of Thinking - from Greatest Thinkers to Future Thinkers!

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Added by Zander Powell on August 10, 2010 at 12:08pm — 2 Comments

Bhuvaneshwar Joshi FIXED MINDSET;the biggest barrier to Creative Thinking

Our minds do the thinking before we think.The fixed set of beliefs in our mind do influence us in taking decisions before we actually apllly our mind to a problem. One such fixed mindset is our belief that we know all that is required to know and so there is no need for creative thinking to generate new options. How can we change this mindset of people not appreciating the need for creative thinking ? Demonstration effect is perhaps the best bet but what about hypnosis as a tool especially wh

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Added by Bhuvaneshwar Joshi on August 10, 2010 at 6:08am — 6 Comments

Phil Bachmann Do youngsters know how things work?

I visited a local school open day yesterday and the ten year olds who showed me around seemed to know a lot of facts but I wondered whether they knew much about how things worked.

Edward de Bono often says that school kids should be taught how the corner shop works - but it seems very unlikely that this school would ever teach this. For example, at that school the five year olds learnt how to read from a computer connected to a website. But children taught to think would ask qu

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Added by Phil Bachmann on August 6, 2010 at 11:00pm — 10 Comments

Juan Francisco Analogy

Hello !

To restructure a model for a different situation, view to devise creative ideas, all this requires a starting point which involves prior conception of an idea to give thought a new address.
In this regard, two lateral thinking problems are:

·Conceive any idea to serve as a basis of one or several sequences of ideas.

·Escape to usual chaining of ideas by unchanged approaches of the archetypal models.

The use of analogies is a

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Added by Juan Francisco on August 6, 2010 at 6:05pm — No Comments

Bhuvaneshwar Joshi Lawyers and Creative Thinking

Lawyers belong to a profession where agruments are made to defend clientsand so,they are on the critical thinking mode most of the time.As age progresses all of us lose our creative thinking ability but more so ,perhaps,the lawyers because in the process of preparing their agruments they even anticipate the counter arguments that may be put forward by theeir opponents. I believe that more you stay in critical thinking mode more likely you are liable to shed your creative thinking talent. Wonder… Continue

Added by Bhuvaneshwar Joshi on July 29, 2010 at 12:32pm — 3 Comments

Lynda Curtin TV Interview with Barb Stennes--CEO de Bono Consulting

Here is a great TV interview--about 5 minutes--featuring Barb Stennes, the CEO of de Bono Consulting discussing de Bono Thinking methods and how they can help politicians think. It ran on a local Des Moines, Iowa station in May. I thought you would all enjoy watching a current news feature. Here is the web address. I just noticed on blog postings there is no feature to create a link. Sorry for the inconvenience.… Continue

Added by Lynda Curtin on July 29, 2010 at 12:17am — 4 Comments

Dennis Perrin Surely the most important problem in the world today?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms4NIB6xroc&feature=related

Of 13,000 escapee North Koreans living in South Korea, here is a first-hand account. What else really matters while this continues today?
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Added by Dennis Perrin on July 25, 2010 at 1:25am — No Comments

Dennis Perrin Some Videos of a Holiday in North Korea!

The Holiday of a Lifetime . . . ?



14 very sho
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Added by Dennis Perrin on July 24, 2010 at 1:51pm — 4 Comments

Dennis Perrin Dr Gwen Adshead, forensic Psychotherapist: fascinating interview

With Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs 11th July 2010



I found this an incredibly moving interview. what do you think?
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Added by Dennis Perrin on July 18, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Linda Laird Australian Women's Health and Fitness Magazine Article on Happiness by Edward

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Added by Linda Laird on July 17, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Kim Jones Why The King Must Be Respected

Love, respect and trust
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Added by Kim Jones on July 8, 2010 at 1:10pm — 42 Comments

Kim Jones The Gods

Who would want to be a celebrity?

Aren't celebrities the reincarnation of the ancient Gods - those who live the high life, are much admired and emulated by everybody, then crash and burn for some godknows reason?

Why do the gods so often crash and burn?


Think:

Wotan and Walhalla

Tiger Woods

Shane Warne

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Added by Kim Jones on July 8, 2010 at 6:32am — 6 Comments

Georges Philips New Book with Edward de Bono foreword

I thought to share some great news with the society. I have recently finished my latest book and requested Edward if he would kindly write the foreword to it. The foreword that Edward wrote for "Change Directions" has to be one the greatest heights of my writing / training career.I will update the society with publication date at the beginning of the year. Continue

Added by Georges Philips on June 29, 2010 at 2:55pm — No Comments

Franis How Aquaponics Can Benefit Those Displaced by Oil Spill

I came up with this idea using de Bono creative thinking techniques. Then I found out there is a whole genre of highly developed skills addressing it that already exists! Since I was talking about it in a group section for members only, I decided to repost it here so anyone can have a look.

It addressed the question of how to benefit those who (both animal and human) had been affected by the Gulf Oil Spill. My idea is that people be paid to set up in business as aquaponic growers in co… Continue

Added by Franis on June 23, 2010 at 11:19am — 4 Comments

Franis Failure Needs A New Name

What it is about being an adult that makes grown-ups so embarrassed about making mistakes?

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Added by Franis on June 7, 2010 at 2:20am — 7 Comments

Adonis Halaris Enantiodromia ... The Other Red Hats


Enantiodromia (Greek: enantios, opposite + dromos, running course) is a principle introduced by psychiatrist Carl Jung that the superabundance of any force inevitably produces its opposite. It is equivalent to the principle of equilibrium in the natural world, in that any extreme is opposed by the system in order to restore balance.




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Added by Adonis Halaris on May 30, 2010 at 3:13am — No Comments

Stephen Wulff Call for Minister of Innovation in Dutch election programs!

The Dutch elections for a new Government will be held on 9 June 2010.

I would like to invite all main parties to include a post for a Minister of Innovation in their election programs.

In addition, to introduce Thinking Lessons in Education Programs for children and students of all ages.

Develop, Design and Learn!

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Added by Stephen Wulff on May 25, 2010 at 8:03pm — 8 Comments

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