Is the way you think like the colour of your eyes something you are born with and cannot alter? Or is thinking a skill that can be improved with practice, like swimming, tennis or cooking? In this newly revised and provocative book, Edward de Bono further develops and demonstrates how the techniques of thinking can be enhanced and improved through attention, practice and the use of simple tools, such as the amazingly effective random-word technique for creativity. He shows that the operating skill is, in fact, quite different from intelligence and reveals how many highly intelligent people are actually bad thinkers because they are caught in the "intelligence trap". Each part of the book covers an important aspect of thinking, such as decisions, emotions and action, and is fully illustrated with his own diagrams.