Gijs van Beeck Calkoen's Blog (6)

An important concept in lateral thinking is Value.

Could it be developed?



Recently I was thinking it over and devised a possible game.

1. Take an object

2. Take a radomn choosen value from a list of values, f.i.this one or this one from living more.

3. Try to built the value chosen into the…

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The Secret New York Minute: Trains Late by Design

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/nyregion/17minute.html?_r=1&hp

Yellow hat: it is wonderful to have the opportunity in this society to think with people who have a basic understanding of the techniques and know the vocabulary (which is not on fe. LinkedIn)

Black hat: the linear layout of the blogs are not very encouraging to contribute, an overview is lacking, it doesn't stimulate parallel thinking.

White hat: does anybody know software for collaborative thinking via internet, using six thinking hats, lateral thinking, CoRT techniques? I know 7 x… Continue

The aim of critical thinking is to assess the validity of a reasoning. It does so by checking the reasoning on internal inconsistenties and wrong deductions. It also tries to detect hidden assumptions, which is the hardest part, because the thinking happens within the exsisting logical bubble. That seems like the Baron von Munschausen, who saved himself out of a marsh by pulling himself out by his hairs.



In my opinion it would be much easier to detect hidden assumptions from outside… Continue

Years ago in a lonely cabin high in the mountains my son and I passed the time with a self-made CoRT-card game. It was rather primitive: there were Thinking Situation Cards and Thinking Tools Cards. Both of us were given 10 Thinking Tools Cards, at random. Then you picked one Situation Card and applied an adequate Thinking Technique. The goal was to mention as many aspects you could, then it was the opponent's turn to explore additional aspects of the thinking situation. It was… Continue