Beautiful Mind Thinking Club - Developing leadership and thinking skills

Beautiful Mind Thinking Club

Developing leadership and thinking skills

This social network is a place for the practice and enjoyment of thinking as a skill.

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Introduce yourself 11 Replies

Started by Janette Toral. Last reply by Janette Toral Sep 6.

Whats wrong with democracy 1 Reply

Started by Jan Jensen. Last reply by Jan Jensen Aug. 25, 2008.

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.

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.

Topics about mind mapping and leadership are tackled as well.

Initial thinking topics are based on Edward De Bono's Thinking Course where I found at least 25 thinking skills taught in it.

Thinking Tool #1: PMI
Thinking Tool #2: APC (Alternatives, Possibilities, and Choices)
Thinking Tool #3: Provocation - Stepping Stone Method
Thinking Tool #4: Provocation - Escape Method
Thinking Tool #5: Provocation - Random Stimulation Method
Thinking Tool #6: CAF
Thinking Tool #7: C & S
Thinking Tool #8: Dense reading and dense listening
Thinking Tool #9: AGO (aims, goals, objectives)

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Thinking Tool #8: Dense reading and dense listening

In Edward De Bono's Thinking Course, there is one tool that challenges to change the way you listen and read. That is dense listening and reading. This is where you are encouraged to listen or read more intently and analyze why it was expressed that way using "could be" and "may be" possible elaborations.

To support the discussion, I encourage that all of us make a… Continue

Posted by Janette Toral on September 18, 2008 at 10:11am

Thinking Tool #7: C & S

In Edward De Bono's Thinking Course, one tool that allows you to consider the things that will happen next as a consequence of a decision is C & S (Consequence & Sequel). Four time zones are suggested: immediate consequence (up to 1 year); short term (1 to 5 years); medium term (5 to 20 years); long term (over 20 years). The time zones can be altered according to the situation.

To support the discussion, I… Continue

Posted by Janette Toral on September 17, 2008 at 2:34pm

Thinking Tool #4: Provocation - Escape Method

In Edward De Bono's Thinking Course, one of the three provocation operation cited is the escape method. This is where we identify the main track of our thinking and then to escape from it. A feature can be dropped, altered, or replaced towards achieving the same end desired.

To support the discussion, I encourage that all of us make a blog post here or in your b… Continue

Posted by Janette Toral on September 16, 2008 at 9:07am

Thinking Tool #6: CAF

In Edward De Bono's Thinking Course, one of the popular attention directing tool is the CAF or Consider All Factors. Focus is on what was left out and make sure that they are included.

To support the discussion, I encourage that all of us make a blog post here or in your blog demonstrating an "CAF" example and post the link here.

Posted by Janette Toral on September 16, 2008 at 9:00am

Thinking Tool #5: Provocation - Random Stimulation Method

In Edward De Bono's Thinking Course, one of the three provocation operation cited is the random stimulation method. This is where a word, object, person, among others gets provided at random. From there, create new ideas based on it.

To support the discussion, I encourage that all of us make a blog post here or in your blog demonstrating a "random stimulation me… Continue

Posted by Janette Toral on September 16, 2008 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

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Janette Toral replied to Janette Toral's discussion 'Introduce yourself'

Hi Mike. Thanks for joining. Not much interaction as folks tend to get busy. Hope you can find time to share thinking skills here. Will check out your Facebook group too. I regularly visit Adelaide.

September 7

Janette Toral replied to Janette Toral's discussion 'Introduce yourself'

Hi Jim. I haven't checked out Serious Creativity yet. If you have time, hope you can share some of the thinking skills taught in the said book.

September 7

Janette Toral replied to Janette Toral's discussion 'Introduce yourself'

Hi Afia. Thank you for joining the community. Look forward to your sharing.

September 7