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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