Edward de Bono’s Message

…wordy people…

Politics is mainly made up of wordy people such as lawyers, teachers, journalists and trade unionists. Such people do not have much experience of constructive thinking – of making things happen. There are many engineers, architects, scientists or executives. Such people do not want to take the risk. If you are not elected the second time you cannot go back to where you were.

… recognition machine …

Edward de Bono’s message:

The human brain is designed to recognise. I described in detail how the brain does this in my book “Mechanism of the Mind” which was published in 1969. The leading physicist in the world liked my book and commissioned a team of computer experts to simulate what I had described. They reported that the system worked exactly as claimed.

So the brain is a recognition machine. This means that most of our thinking is judgmental. This has serious consequences – especially in international affairs.