Beautiful Mind Thinking Club

Developing thinking skills

Inspired by Edward De Bono's book "Thinking Course", this informal thinking club is a place for the practice and enjoyment of thinking as a skill.

Who should join?

This informal club is ideal for those who want to enjoy thinking and for those who want to develop their skill at thinking.

Motivation and commitment is the primary criteria to become and maintain membership in this informal club.

The type of thinking in this club are:

1. Concerned with wisdom rather than cleverness.
2. Pursues concept of thinking that requires to get things done.
3. Use thinking in an exploratory way, not to show how bright or right you are.
4. Emphasis on perception.
5. Neutral, objective, positive, has humor, and constructive. Arrogance is the major sin.
6. Focused on how we are thinking about a subject.

Once you join, you shall be assigned to a group where there are six members in it. Twice a month, an online activity is organized that needs to be done in a one hour duration. Face-to-face get together is the most preferred mode in these twice-a-month activities. Those who are willing to take a lead in each group are more than welcome to step-up, lead a group of 6 within, and organize their twice-a-month meet-up.
 

Blog Posts

Thinking Tool #1: PMI

In Edward De Bono's Thinking Course, the first thinking tool that he shared was the PMI (plus, minuses, interesting). It is a broad scanning tool that I think most of us can one way or another identify with it.

The PMI is an attention directing tool as it requires your attention towards

  • plus points
  • then minus pints
  • lastly, the interesting points
I tried usin… Continue

Posted by Janette Toral on October 27th, 2007 at 8:13am — No Comments (Add)

Join the Beautiful Mind Journey

The purpose of this community is to get interested people involve in activities that can help in developing the thinking process. When you join this community, you give a commitment to do the activities and share your lessons learned.

Posted by Janette Toral on October 25th, 2007 at 11:57am — No Comments (Add)

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