Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono is a Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth19 May 1933
teaching thinking employment
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
mind perception attention
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
technology opportunity thinking
We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
happiness positive-attitude differences
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
great looking painter people value
A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.
far human
Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.