. < o a: Mens y oo RB» «ge el Ahad de onoFive easy-to-follow steps to clear, productive thinking Thinking is the most fundamental skill. Your happiness and your success Pea canna ie eau Ree eR re ed ene UR anak: Ree rire eas) 2. Not knowing what to do next. CR mur urea ee Mele Ee UTR Cte colle Uielo} relay echo tLal Braet a Rola c ike Mee UR eth) ARR eae aA old mars The TO stage: where am | going to? With what do | want to end up? BU eek eta ee ue eu Pr eutectic tasers N ire) PL eee emule reso Ua a Lele Ue) Dae oe 4. The SO stage: choosing from among the possibilities. Reducing the Ceifelie Co MI Role Celso 5. The GO stage: going ahead and putting thinking into action. ee Re RU Ae ee ee a aR rte er Career ell og cot To R ok Ue Re) Re RCO ee lel (rae OMS PsA Oma ae Cy aioe Tee UL aT a CeO TSB Peel RMU RCL con SELLEPENGUIN BOOKS TEACH YOURSELF TO THINK Edward de Bono was born in Malta and was initially educated at St Edward’s College, Malta, and the Royal University of Malta, where he obtained a degree in medicine. He proceeded as a Rhodes Scholar to Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained an honours degree in psychology and physiology and then a D.Phil, in medicine. He also holds a Ph.D, from Cambridge. He has had faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, London, Cambridge and Harvard. Dr Edward de Bono is widely regarded as the leading authority in the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. He originated the concept of lateral thinking (which now has an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary) and developed formal techniques for deliberate creative thinking. He has written fifty-six books, which have been translated into thirty-four languages, and has made two television series. He has also made a feature film entitled 2040, Dr de Bono has been invited to lecture in forty-eight countries and to address major international conferences. In 1989 he was asked to chair a special meeting of Nobel Prize Laureates. His instruction in thinking has been sought by many of the leading business corporations in the world such as IBM, NTT (Japan), Du Pont, Prudential, Shell, Eriksson, McKinseys, Ciba-Geigy, Ford, Siemens and many others. Drde Bono runs the most widely used programme for the direct teaching of thinking in schools. This is now in use in many countries around the world. The emphasis is on simplicity and practicality. He is the founder of the Cognitive Research Trust (1969). The L-Game, of which he is the inventor, was said to be the simplest real game ever invented. His new game is even simpler, and may be the first ‘social justice’ game ever invented, On the Internet, Dr de Bono has created an international Creative Team. Drde Bono’s key contribution has been his understanding of the brain as a self-organizing system. From this solid base he set out to design practical tools for thinking. His work is in use equally in boardrooms of some of the world’s largest corporations and also with five year olds in school. His design of the Six Hats method provides, for the first time, Western thinking with a constructive idiom, instead of adversarial argument. His work is in use with élite gifted schools, rural schools in South Africa and Khmer villages in Cambodia. The appeal of Dr de Bono’s work is the simplicity and practicality.