De Bono's Thinking Course

Is the way you think like the colour of your eyes something you are born with and cannot alter? Or is thinking a skill that can be improved with practice, like swimming, tennis or cooking? In this newly revised and provocative book, Edward de Bono further develops and demonstrates how the techniques of thinking can be enhanced and improved through attention, practice and the use of simple tools, such as the amazingly effective random-word technique for creativity. He shows that the operating skill is, in fact, quite different from intelligence and reveals how many highly intelligent people are actually bad thinkers because they are caught in the "intelligence trap". Each part of the book covers an important aspect of thinking, such as decisions, emotions and action, and is fully illustrated with his own diagrams. Edward de Bono is considered by many to be the world's leading authority on the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. His lessons are widely used in many countries with millions of pupils ranging from six-year-olds to adults. He has written 45 books which have been translated into 27 languages including Russian, Hebrew and Japanese and his instruction in thinking has been sought by many large corporations and governments around the world. He has also set up the International Creativity Office in New York to work with the UN and other international bodies and has been invited to lecture in 51 different countries.