Re: de Bono

2014-06-15 Thread Kim Jones
> On 16 Jun 2014, at 11:58 am, LizR wrote: > > Yet a table with four legs can be unstable, while one with three isn't... > > Sorry, maybe that was the wrong metaphor! hW In Lateral Thinking (which you are actually quite good at, possibly without knowing that) there is never any question of

Re: de Bono

2014-06-15 Thread LizR
Yet a table with four legs can be unstable, while one with three isn't... Sorry, maybe that was the wrong metaphor! On 16 June 2014 03:02, wrote: > > > On Sunday, June 15, 2014 3:10:14 AM UTC+1, Russell Standish wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:29:04AM +1000, Kim Jones wrote: >> >> ...

Re: de Bono

2014-06-15 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, June 15, 2014 3:10:14 AM UTC+1, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:29:04AM +1000, Kim Jones wrote: > > ... > > > > Real thinking involves all four wheels of the car on the ground. An > argument style of thinking only has three wheels on the ground. The missing

Re: de Bono

2014-06-15 Thread Kim Jones
ty thinking. > > hB = Black Hat time: the Hat everyone loves to wear. Not a bad Hat, but an > extremely important Hat because without knowing the dangers and the pitfalls > of something, disaster may ensue. People often confuse the hB with the hR > because the licence to get emotio

Re: de Bono

2014-06-15 Thread Kim Jones
> On 15 Jun 2014, at 5:05 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 04:28:23PM +1000, Kim Jones wrote: >> >> De Bono said that social media just makes people lazy and stupid in their >> thinking and the older I get the more I see what h

Re: de Bono

2014-06-14 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 04:28:23PM +1000, Kim Jones wrote: > > De Bono said that social media just makes people lazy and stupid in their > thinking and the older I get the more I see what he means. > Does he have any suggestion for how to implement his hats game in an online foru

Re: de Bono

2014-06-14 Thread Kim Jones
> On 15 Jun 2014, at 12:02 pm, meekerdb wrote: > >> On 6/14/2014 6:29 PM, Kim Jones wrote: >> This is the observation that some highly intelligent people with 8 stroke >> motors between their ears can easily be duped or misled by simple con tricks >> for the basic reason that they have a dee

Re: de Bono

2014-06-14 Thread Kim Jones
Thinking Hats. The trouble is, until you see the output of a Hats session, one tends to think that this is just a way to shackle thinking when in fact the reverse is the case. De Bono held to the firm assertion that thinking is best done in a formal way and in terms of a set of rules which he g

Re: de Bono

2014-06-14 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:29:04AM +1000, Kim Jones wrote: ... > > Real thinking involves all four wheels of the car on the ground. An argument > style of thinking only has three wheels on the ground. The missing fourth > wheel is generic, possibility-based thinking that turns away from agreeme

Re: de Bono

2014-06-14 Thread meekerdb
On 6/14/2014 6:29 PM, Kim Jones wrote: This is the observation that some highly intelligent people with 8 stroke motors between their ears can easily be duped or misled by simple con tricks for the basic reason that they have a deep need to be seen tfo be right about anything and everything, t

Re: de Bono

2014-06-14 Thread Kim Jones
> On 15 Jun 2014, at 9:03 am, meekerdb wrote: > > Yeah, I remember Edward de Bono. I read what I think was his first book, > which was all about thinking "outside the box" as the current phrase goes. > It was good advice. > > Brent Yes. And the implicat

de Bono

2014-06-14 Thread meekerdb
Yeah, I remember Edward de Bono. I read what I think was his first book, which was all about thinking "outside the box" as the current phrase goes. It was good advice. Brent On 6/14/2014 3:35 PM, Kim wrote: On 15 Jun 2014, at 2:34 am, John Clark wrote: On the other hand t