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• franze · Dec 8, 2014 · Recommends

  lateral thinking - edward de bono http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/829616.Lateral_Thinking

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• vivegi · Jan 27, 2022 · Recommends

  …tends to bring out differing perspectives. If you can't bring them out in the open in the early stages of idea generation, you are clearly missing out. Edward de Bono, the person who coined the term Lateral Thinking has developed a lot of tools for creative thinking. His book, Serious Creativity changed my mindset and taught me that creativity, the kind we use every day as opposed to artistic creativity like painting/acting…

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• kirykl · Oct 16, 2022 · Recommends

  Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono

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• boilerupnc · Aug 20, 2022 · Recommends

  …revisit it often to refine and ponder and/or add. It has helped inspire patents and given me insights in connecting things that otherwise would nag me to a point of being distracted. I’ve found the “Lateral Thinking” ideation approach championed by Edward De Bono [0] helpful as a tool to realize disconnected concepts that nag me as related in someway means their is something interesting there. While not always obvious,…

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• plinkplonk · May 13, 2019 · Recommends

  …mental models fit the known outcome here, so one has to be aware of that) EDIT: (not the same as mental models, but since someone mentioned ARIZ/TRIZ above) Edward De Bono's "Serious Creativity" and "Lateral Thinking for Management" (yes terrible title) are full of thinking tools that can be practiced systematically. Most of his books are repetitive and have varying ratios of fluff to core material, but these two…

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• mindcrime · Nov 5, 2018 · Mentions

  …creativity / innovation / etc., but I'm not sure I can say any of them specifically helped, although a few of the ideas may have been useful without my being consciously aware of it. I read some of the Lateral Thinking book and I vaguely recall thinking it seemed somewhat useful. YMMV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking I also recommend Alan Kay's video series on "How To Invent The Future". Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ…

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• givan · Jun 3, 2011 · Mentions

  http://www.amazon.com/Lateral-Thinking-Creativity-Perennial-...

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• wslh · Sep 28, 2011 · Mentions

  There are good lists and methods from Edward De Bono (i.e: Lateral Thinking), Genrich Altshuller (TRIZ). For a good anthology on thinking skills instruction you can look at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED306559.pdf But it's important to note that those are tools and ideas production…

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• defined · Apr 26, 2017 · Mentions

  …comments that try to be helpful and offer advice, while expressing bemusement that the obvious step of just leaving and getting another job was apparently rejected in favor of suicide. Edward de Bono of Lateral Thinking fame wrote a book named "Po: Beyond Yes and No" [1]. While not the most catchy title, in the book he describes the process of forming patterns in the mind as analogous to pouring warm ink over jello.…

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• tuxone · Jul 7, 2024 · Mentions

  …might be a limitation. As a bilingual, a common question from friends in primary school was what language I was thinking in. My answer was I don’t think words, I think images. I later read Edward de Bono Lateral Thinking. I might be out of context here but I thought someone might be interested in the book.

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• candyman · Mar 7, 2023 · Mentions

  Lateral Thinking was published by Edward de Bono in 1967.

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