Was Edward de Bono a genius or just a master of gibberish

Overnight said:
Only in that you have revived this guy's theory that imagining wearing a certain-colored hat during a business meeting can make meetings move along at a faster pace. WTF? lol, never heard of that.
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best example of data mining. LOL
 
JSOP said:
So maybe the real way to make people use "lateral thinking" to find "creative solutions" to problems is to take away all the resources, to make them poor and desperate all the time? LOL
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Imo, fasting sharpens the brain, whether voluntary or involuntary.
 
JSOP said:
. People automatically would find creative ways to resolve problems, like using cheap vodka to disinfect wounds when there is no alcohol
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"They fed her cassava and poured gasoline into her open wounds to flush out the maggots that protruded “like asparagus tips,”
Not everyone has your soft existence in NYC.
 
zdreg said:
"They fed her cassava and poured gasoline into her open wounds to flush out the maggots that protruded “like asparagus tips,”
Not everyone has your soft existence in NYC.
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True in large part, but I think it can be safely stated that the resulting entomology of an Amazonian jungle air crash is not totally dissimilar to the results of a number of NYC financial managers bearing largely similar characteristics. :cool:
 
Well, I consider myself fairly intelligent and well read, yet I never heard of this dude. Also the Economics Nobel is not a real Nobel prize and he was only nominated.

But I will look into his works...

Practical magic:

"In 2000, de Bono advised a UK Foreign Office committee that the Arab–Israeli conflict might be due, in part, to low levels of zinc found in people who eat unleavened bread (e.g. pitaflatbread). De Bono argued that low zinc levels leads to heightened aggression. He suggested shipping out jars of Marmite to compensate"
 
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