Edward de Bono's Message for Today - July 12, 2009

"Most of the thinking tools we have developed over the centuries deal with the second stage of thinking - the stage that follows once we have already formed our ideas. Mathematics and logic deal with ready-made ideas. It is on the first stage of thinking that we form our ideas. This is the generative stage of thinking. It is also the generous stage of thinking. At this stage what matters is producing ideas. It is only after we have got some ideas that we can be critical and selective. You have to have a rose-bush before you can prune it. If you start applying pruning techniques to the seedling you will never get anywhere."

思考の第一段階と第二段階