I am right, you are wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from rock logic to water logic

De Bono, Edward

ISBN 10: 0670830119 / ISBN 13: 9780670830114

Published by Viking, 1990

About this Item

Signed by Edward De Bono on flyleaf. Hardcover with black buckram boards and dust-jacket in very good condition. Very slight edge-wear to dust-jacket. No notes or highlights.

Seller Inventory # Abe22-40

Bibliographic Details

• Title: I am right, you are wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from rock logic to water logic
• Publisher: Viking
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670830119
• ISBN 13: 9780670830114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A claim that we can now for the first time in history, begin to understand how the brain behaves as a self-organizing system in which information arranges itself into patterns. de Bono contends that logic and argument has proved very useful in dealing with technical matters but less so for dealing with human affairs. The implications of this change are spelled out in this book which suggests that humour is the most significant activity of the brain, that language is good at description but very poor on perception and that argument, the very basis of our adversarial systems, is a poor method of exchange. He also suggests that the brain is designed to set up belief systems and how our very tradition of truth and logic is only another belief system that sustains itself.

Review

An inspiring man with brilliant ideas. De Bono never ceases to amaze with his clarity of thought. (Richard Branson)