Creating a thinking club
Edward De Bono's Thinking Course book has a special chapter encouraging readers to create or join a thinking club. As I haven't heard of any such group yet, I've decided to create one and referred to it as the Beautiful Mind Thinking Club.
This informal thinking club is a place for the practice and enjoyment of thinking as a skill. It 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:
- Concerned with wisdom rather than cleverness.
- Pursues concept of thinking that requires to get things done.
- Use thinking in an exploratory way, not to show how bright or right you are.
- Emphasis on perception.
- Neutral, objective, positive, has humor, and constructive. Arrogance is the major sin.
- Focused on how we are thinking about a subject.



3 comments:
wow. what has man become of that we have to have a club just to encourage people to think more? although a club would help give a person some direction, it still boils down to the person making the decision. i know, easier said than done. i guess sometimes, we do need a little push to come up with better decisions :)
Hi Chelsea. I think the reason why Edward De Bono encouraged it is that reading the book and learning from it is one thing but practicing it with peers can help in the learning experience further.
I wish I could join this club. But I'm working overseas.
Good luck to all those who have joined your club!
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