"Considering how important thinking is to all aspects of our lives, we pay remarkably little attention to it. In Teach Yourself to Think, the world's leading authority on creative thinking provides a practical method for improving cognitive skills. "

Edward de Bono (born May 19, 1933, in Malta) is a physician, author, inventor, and consultant. He is best known as the originator of the term lateral thinking and a proponent of the deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.