Creatività e pensiero laterale

"Limits are usually self-imposed." "Often even a minor change in the way a thing is looked at can make a huge difference." Lately, I find myself looking at self-help books more and more skeptically, especially when titles tend to make bold declarations. 'Creativity Step by Step' is one of those titles Leggi tutto

Firstly, putting my status as finished is a fib, because I only got half way through before I had to abandon this book. It is so boring I fell asleep reading it when I wasn't even tired. 90% of the content is a smug, self-congratulatory ramble about how great lateral thinking is, using different met Leggi tutto

«Le nuove idee sono la sostanza del cambiamento e del progresso in ogni campo, dalla scienza all’arte, dalla politica alla felicità personale». Edward de Bono Il pensiero laterale è in stretta relazione con l’intuizione, la creatività e lo humour. Nella quarta di copertina, questo libro viene defi Leggi tutto

Only read this if you want to verbalise De Bono congratulatorily masturbating to himself.

أنت و أنا نضع لمساتنا على حياتنا من خلال أفكارنا الجديدة ، ماء الأمر في هذا الكتاب هو أن تبقى منفتح على كل إحتمالية منخفضة ( التفكير الجانبي ) في حلك لمشكلاتك وقضاياك عوضًا عن اللجوء للإحتمالية العليا ( التفكير العمودي ) ، قضيتك وقضيتي بعد الإنتهاء من قراءة الكتاب ستكون : منح كل فكرة جديدة ستخطر على Leggi tutto

حينما كنتُ أبحثُ عن ترجماتِ "الغصن الذهبي" قادني البحثُ إلى ترجمةِ نايف الخوص، ومن نايف الخوص وصلتُ إلى ترجمتِه لكتاب إدوارد ديبونو "التفكير الجانبي" فعالَم الكتبِ عالمٌ غريبٌ يجر بعضُه بعضا فكل كتابٍ يجر أخاه، فهي شبكةٌ كشبكةِ العنكبوتِ. التفكيرُ الجانبي يعنى بطريقةِ تفكيرٍ مختلفةٍ للأمورِ فهي عكسُ Leggi tutto

Interesting book, offering some processes to generate ideas and solve problems. To me, the main point of the book is to see problems and solutions as patterns, so after you recognize a pattern you can break/rearrange to form new patterns (or new solutions). The author argues that ideas should not be d Leggi tutto

“How do I love thee, let me count the ways”... apparently, there were a lot of ways for this author to explain Lateral Thinking and its techniques over and over and over...and over. I feel if this book was shorter by 100 pages it would’ve delivered the same content, sheesh... Lateral thinking is an a Leggi tutto

Everyone is born creative. Creativity can't be learned, but it involves unlearning some of the approaches we learned as part of education. This book explains the process which helps in improving creativity. This is must read for professionals who solves many technical problems day to day and also for Leggi tutto

نحتاج كثيراً إلى إيجاد الحلول الأخرى غير المتاحة وغير السائدة، لا لكي نصل فقط إلى مرحلة التخلص من مشاكلنا، بل فوق ذلك لكي نتخلص منها بكثير من الإبداع هذا الكتاب يتيح لك الوصول إلى تلك المرحلة كتاب جاء في وقته المناسب Leggi tutto