Edward De Bono
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May 19, 1933
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place of birth
Malta
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Edward de Bono is a British physician, author, inventor, and consultant. He is best known as the originator of the term lateral thinking (structured creativity) and the leading proponent of the deliberate teaching of thinking in schools.
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Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono avg rating 3.75 — 135 ratings — published 2000 6 editions |
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Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity by Edward De Bono avg rating 3.86 — 72 ratings — published 1970 2 editions |
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How to Have a Beautiful Mind by Edward De Bono avg rating 3.42 — 69 ratings — published 2007 |
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Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step by Edward De Bono avg rating 3.84 — 50 ratings — published 1973 2 editions |
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I Am Right You Are Wrong: From This to the New Renaissance: From Rock Logic to Water Logic by Edward De Bono avg rating 4.21 — 29 ratings — published 1990 4 editions |
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De Bono's Thinking Course by Edward De Bono avg rating 3.86 — 28 ratings — published 1985 12 editions |
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How to Have Creative Ideas by Edward De Bono avg rating 3.84 — 25 ratings — published 2007 |
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Teach Your Child How to Think by Edward De Bono avg rating 3.54 — 26 ratings — published 1992 3 editions |
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Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas by Edward De Bono avg rating 4.29 — 17 ratings — published 1992 4 editions |
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Simplicity by Edward De Bono avg rating 4.07 — 15 ratings — published 1990 3 editions |
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"Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement."
— Edward De Bono (The Use of Lateral Thinking)
— Edward De Bono (The Use of Lateral Thinking)
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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— Edward De Bono
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— Edward De Bono
"(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas."
— Edward De Bono (PO)
— Edward De Bono (PO)
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