September 2010 Blog Posts (4)

The Power of Movement with Online Communities

In the world of critical thinking and argument, if you wish to present a new idea you must have thought it totally through. You need to have considered feasibility. You need to have anticipated objections. If you have a mistake in your presentation or have missed an important factor then your presentation will be shredded and possibly tossed in the bin.

When you are online, as with this society, such a system of treatment of ideas must inevitably act as a fierce throttle on the… Continue

Added by Danny Stevens on September 24, 2010 at 0:23 — 6 Comments

How To Grow Your Brain Fibers

In this post are some brain research tips involving human reactions and habituated impulses and how they work. Rather than being at the mercy of automated or accidentally learned reactions, listed are some practical experiments and suggestions useful for strengthening the ability to deliberately direct response. These work to compensate for the brain's design limitations.

LOWER AND HIGHER BRAIN FUNCTION

The lower… Continue

Added by Franis on September 13, 2010 at 7:00 — 3 Comments

De Bono and Others....

We all see books, magazines, articles and newsfeeds about positive thinking, quantum energy and other stuff. I personally read some of that materail however, they were totally dissappointing. It is no secret that this kind of materials are now a market. "The positive thinking market."

I think their goal is to be a "de Bono". Making a sansational method of thinking and taking a share from the market. unfortunately this does not seem possible. Many o those books are like another ones. they… Continue

Added by Burak Tuna Ölmez on September 8, 2010 at 10:45 — 4 Comments

LANGUAGES AND L.T.

While coining the term Lateral Thinking Dr De Bono gave a valid reason ,namely,that in English language the word creativity has a wider connotation so for creative thinking he preferred the use of L.T. I wonder if the degree of freedom or restriction allowed by the rules of a language have any influence on facilitating or restricting the flow of L.T. ? For instance, in Chineese language the flower like letters are ,I believe,words or even represent a whole picture. Would that accelerate the…

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Added by Bhuvaneshwar Joshi on September 6, 2010 at 5:30 — 1 Comment