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Edward de Bono

I was lucky enough to be sent along by my employer to a seminar held by Edward de Bono on Friday, April 28. Actually, it felt more like a lecture. He conducted three 1.5 hour segments covering his famous theories of the famous Six Thinking Hats, . I found out later over the weekend that the examples he presented during the day were direct examples from his book, and I wondered how many times he has heard himself repeat the same examples and what he got out of doing so. He sat at a desk on stage all day in front of an overhead camera and you followed his theories by watching him demonstrate through his diagrams in different coloured pens. A few interesting parts of the day:

• he is right-handed.. which made me wonder about the belief that only truly creative people are left-handed. I probably should have asked him that in question time..
• most ridiculous things really aren't ridiculous at all
• Venezuela is the country in the world that has formally introduced de Bono's thinking methods into the school curriculum
• He repeated again and again that the Western way of thinking relies mostly on argument and debate to discover "truth"
• "smart" people spend too much time arguing with others to prove they are smart, much like the western world uses argument and debate to prove "truth"
  

posted by Katherine @ 9:46 PM 1 comments

Chacun cherche son chat

Chacun cherche son chat is a french film that caught my eye in grade 11 while I was at Blockbuster renting the original A Streetcar Named Desire with Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh for an English assignment. I studied and recited the monologue ("crumble and fade and - regrets - recriminations") of Blanche DuBois before she proposes to Mitch then screams "Fire" in her insanity. Yep, I even used a mock Southern accent which I cringe to think about now..

Chacun cherche son chat (When the cat's away) is a film I am often reminded of for its conclusion. Its a story about searching for her cat, which then becomes a metaphor into what she is "searching for" and where she finds it. As Chloe discovered, sometimes searching in the hardest to reach places won't get you any closer to the answers, and the answers were never so hard to find to begin with.

posted by Katherine @ 11:56 PM 0 comments

Lets dance in style, lets dance for a while

Heaven can wait we’re only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you going to drop the bomb or not?

Let us die young or let us live forever
We don’t have the power but we never say never...

I know this song could be called cheesey, but i have been hearing it on the OC (just one of the other mini series I'm addicted to) and on the radio. Forever Young by Alphaville released in 1982 - something about it makes me sad, which is a lot more than the 90's techno remix did for me.

posted by Katherine @ 11:24 AM 2 comments