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De Bono's Thinking Course

Published March 1988 by Facts on File .
Written in English.

Table of Contents

Author’s Note V
Thinking as a Skill 1
Intelligence and Genes 2
Intelligence and Education 3
The Intelligence Trap 4
Learning Teaching and Teaching Thinking 6
The Thinker 8
Self-image 9
Think Slowly 10
The PMI 11
Scan 15
Interesting 16
Use of the PMI 17
Practice 18
Alternatives 21
Easy Alternatives 22
More Difficult Alternatives 24
The Real Difficulty 25
Beyond the Adequate 26
The APC 28
Explanation 29
Hypothesis 29
Perception 30
Problems 30
Review 31
Design 31
Decision 32
Course of Action 32
Forecasting 32
Practicality 33
Perception and Patterns 35
Perception 36
Crossing the Road 40
Pattern Making 41
How Patterns Are Formed 42
The Use of Patterns 45
Recognition 46
Getting It Wrong 46
Abstraction 48
Grouping 49
Analysis 49
Awareness 50
Art 50
Exercise 50
Lateral Thinking 53
Pattern Changing 54
Humor 55
Hindsight and Insight 57
Creativity and Lateral Thinking 57
Lateral Thinking as Process 59
Judgement and Provocation 60
The Word “po” 62
The Steppingstone Method 63
The Escape Method 65
The Random Stimulation Method 67
General Use of Lateral Thinking 69
The Logic of Lateral Thinking 70
Information and Thinking 71
Operacy 73
Experience Scan 73
CAF 74
C & S 75
Dense Reading and Dense Listening 76
Logic 78
Getting More Information 79
Questions 79
Experiments 81
Selecting Information 82
FI-FO 83
Two Uses 83
Other People 85
Exlectics 89
EBS 90
ADI 91
Logic‐bubbles 93
OPV 95
Constructive Design 98
Negotiation 99
Communication 100
Emotions and Values 103
Gut Feeling and Thinking 103
Emotions at Three Points 105
Changing Feelings 107
Values 108
HV and LV 109
Value‐laden Words 111
Awareness 113
Making Decisions 115
Decision Preframe 116
Generation of Alternatives 117
Values and Priorities 117
The Dice Method 118
The Easy Way Out Method 118
Spell‐out Method 119
Balaam’s Ass Method 120
The Ideal Solution Method 121
The Best Home Method 122
The “What if…?” Method 123
The Simple Matrix Method 124
The Full Matrix Method 126
The Laziness Method 127
Decision Postframe 128
Emphasis on Fit 129
Thinking and Doing 131
Operacy 132
Three Ways of Doing Things 133
Setting Objectives 134
AGO 135
Targets 136
Strategy and Tactics 137
Courses of Action 138
If‐box Maps 139
Planning 141
The Terrain 142
People 142
Risks 143
Constraints 143
Resources 143
Future 143
Business and Daily Life 144
Deliberate Thinking 145
Deliberate 146
Focused 146
Confident 147
Enjoyable 147
Self‐Image 148
Time Discipline 149
Harvesting 149
Thinking about Thinking 150
The TEC Framework 151
The 5‐Minute Think 153
Symbolic TEC 157
PISCO 157
Symbolic PISCO 158
TEC‐PISCO 158
Deliberate Practice of Thinking 159
Thinking Clubs 159
General Thinking Skills 160
Summary 163
Reference 169
How to Set Up a Thinking Club 173
Index 189

The Physical Object

Format
 Paperback
Number of pages
 192
Dimensions
 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Weight
 10.4 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
 OL8050594M
ISBN 10
 0816018952
ISBN 13
 9780816018956
Library Thing
 137405
Goodreads
 86897

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