Primary Ability -- Thinking Skills Pursuing Excellence: Thinking Skills Pursuing Excellence

Author: Tony Buzan
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: The quality of thinking determines the quality of the future. You can analyze the past, but you cannot design the future. What matters is not judging "what is," but thinking "what could be." Ensuring the correctness of every step actually limits creativity. Analyzing information can only help us select an idea from stored standard perspectives, but it cannot help us discover a new idea. The essence of traditional thinking methods lies in eliminating false, chaotic, and erroneous assumptions, rather than proposing better ideas and methods. "Possibility" may be the most important word in the field of thinking. It is the power of "possibility" that has brought Western science and technology such tremendous progress. The entire human race should deepen its understanding of the relationship between certainty and possibility. We develop our thoughts within our inner world of perception, looking forward to the future or reflecting on the past. Value design determines everything. The starting point for excellence lies in a deep understanding of thinking behavior. Most errors in thinking are actually perceptual errors, and the key to correctness lies in perception. As an information processing system, the brain's work is to understand the surrounding world through forming and recognizing patterns. The perceptual nature of patterns leads to the need for creativity, and the driving force for change is creativity. One systematic approach to creative thinking is lateral thinking. Thinking is the operational skill that intelligence uses when operating with experience. If IQ is compared to the inherent power of a car, then thinking skills are equivalent to driving skills. Thinking can be learned as a skill, and through conscious training, thinking skills can be greatly improved. Tony Buzan's many thinking training programs are based on improving perceptual ability and aim to stimulate people's creativity. They propose many practical methods for improving people's thinking skills, with the goal of learning how to use their intelligence more effectively.