Teach Your Child How to Think by Edward De Bono

Teach Your Child How to Think by Edward De Bono

Author:Edward De Bono
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241336885
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2017-07-07T04:00:00+00:00


GENERATING ALTERNATIVES

In a concrete floor there is a hole that is filled with water. You want to get the water out of the hole.

… ‘could suck the water out.’

… ‘could lift the water out.’

… ‘could displace the water.’

Each of these is a broad idea, a general method or a broad concept. Once we have the broad idea we then go on to see in what ways that broad idea could be carried out as a detailed idea. ‘Suck the water out’ suggests a pump or a siphon. ‘Lift the water out’ suggests a small bucket, spoon, sponge or mop. ‘Displace the water’ suggests putting in stones or even a plastic bag filled with water and then removing these objects later.

Instead of immediately trying to find the detailed idea it is often more useful to define some broad ideas. Once you have the broad idea, you look around for actual ways of carrying it out in a detailed way.

It is very useful to get into the thinking habit of finding broad approaches to a matter or problem and then trying to work from these to specific details.

Generating ideas under the green hat or for an APC often needs to be done in this way.



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