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A review by gabrielle_erin
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
2.0
First of all, I really respect de Bono's research, theories and methods. I think the application of the Six Thinking Hats in the education sphere has great potential and has clearly been proven successful in the business sector.
That being said, some academics just cannot parse a sentence for shit. This book was so poorly constructed, it's a miracle I managed to understand the theory at all. Heavy editing was required to make this user-friendly, and I am genuinely shocked that this has not occurred, considering this is the "manual" businesses are using to apply this method in their workplaces. Sidenote: I read the REVISED edition. I simply cannot imagine how the first edition read.
The chapters were so insanely repetitive and focused on examples of conversations rather than explaining the methods. The only parts of each chapter that were relevant to readers were the introduction and the summary. The rest read completely as filler, and often as self-promotion for de Bono's other work.
I also found it extremely frustrating that the entire method is based on "mapping thinking" yet he never once explains what this looks like in practice. There is references to "adding this to the map" but this vague and abstract notion undermined what is overall, a very solid concept.
I will definitely read more on de Bono's work, but absolutely not if it is written by him.
That being said, some academics just cannot parse a sentence for shit. This book was so poorly constructed, it's a miracle I managed to understand the theory at all. Heavy editing was required to make this user-friendly, and I am genuinely shocked that this has not occurred, considering this is the "manual" businesses are using to apply this method in their workplaces. Sidenote: I read the REVISED edition. I simply cannot imagine how the first edition read.
The chapters were so insanely repetitive and focused on examples of conversations rather than explaining the methods. The only parts of each chapter that were relevant to readers were the introduction and the summary. The rest read completely as filler, and often as self-promotion for de Bono's other work.
I also found it extremely frustrating that the entire method is based on "mapping thinking" yet he never once explains what this looks like in practice. There is references to "adding this to the map" but this vague and abstract notion undermined what is overall, a very solid concept.
I will definitely read more on de Bono's work, but absolutely not if it is written by him.