biography
| name: |
de Bono, Edward (Francis Charles Publius)
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pronunciation:
[duh bohnoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1933– )
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| biography:
| Psychologist and writer, born in Malta. He studied medicine at the Royal University of Malta, then went as a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford, where he read psychology, physiology, and medicine. He was a lecturer in medicine at Cambridge (1976–83), and is now involved with a number of organizations to promote the skills of thinking which break out of the trammels of the traditional (lateral thinking). These include the Cognitive Research Trust, Cambridge (director since 1971), and the Supranational Independent Thinking Organization (secretary-general since 1983). His books include The Use of Lateral Thinking (1967), Teaching Thinking (1976), I Am Right, You Are Wrong (1990), and Edward de Bono's Textbook of Wisdom (1996). |
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