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Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (Perennial Library)
by Edward De Bono
from Harper Paperbacks
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Must Read for Teachers 
Edward de Bono's text is a must read for teachers who wish to foster independent thinking in their students and show them that seeing problems in new ways can lead to creative, worthwhile solutions.
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Creativity in a Bottle
In my view, this is the best of the de Bono series of more than 30 books. It is as advertised: A step-by-step introduction to the art and science of creative thinking.
It shows the reader with a staple of de Bono's -- his graphs and diagrams - how to get over the threshold from just ordinary (right brain thinking) or "linear thinking" to (left brain thinking) or "lateral thinking," that is to pure creativity; and most important, how to consistently find the "launch pad" to ones own creativity.more info
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Sort of interesting - great primer for an IQ or SAT test! 
Well, I have to admit I was a bit disappointed, but maybe that's just from erroneous expectations. I'm an artist & designer, and a graphic designer I admire had this on his list of the most important books he'd read, and that was my motivation to pick it up.
My conclusion is that this is a great book for non-'Creative' types (not to mean that they're not creative, just that they're not in a 'Creative' field such as the arts) such as scientists and engineers, who are looking to round out their... more info
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Be Smarter than Socrates
Isn't it amazing that for hundreds of years no one thought about creative thinking till de bono and lateral thinking came along.
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