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.
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Added by Janette Toral on September 18, 2008 at 10:11am —
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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.
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Added by Janette Toral on September 17, 2008 at 2:34pm —
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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.
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Added by Janette Toral on September 16, 2008 at 9:07am —
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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.
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Added by Janette Toral on September 16, 2008 at 9:00am —
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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.
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make a blog post here or in your blog demonstrating an "CAF" example and post the link here.
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Added by Janette Toral on September 16, 2008 at 9:00am —
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In Edward De Bono's
Thinking Course, one of the three provocation operation cited is the stepping stone method. This is where we switch from one pattern to the other by changing the element of "movement".
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Added by Janette Toral on September 14, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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In Edward De Bono's
Thinking Course, doing an APC is a deliberate effort to generate alternatives at a particular point. There is nothing rocket science behind it.
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make a blog post here or in your blog demonstrating an APC example and post the link here.
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Added by Janette Toral on September 14, 2008 at 12:15pm —
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Here is a mind map of
Edward De Bono's Thinking Course which I hope can serve as an initial framework that can be discussed in this social network.
From what I read, there are at least 25 thinking skills in it and hope to blog more…
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Added by Janette Toral on September 13, 2008 at 11:45pm —
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One of the things that I got into lately is
mind maps and memory improvement following mostly those being taught by
Tony Buzan. Its use has helped me a lot in absorbing what I read and in plotting my ideas. One of my personal projects is to mind map all books written by
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Added by Janette Toral on September 12, 2008 at 8:44pm —
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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
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Added by Janette Toral on October 27, 2007 at 8:00am —
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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.
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Added by Janette Toral on October 25, 2007 at 11:57am —
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