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RosePerrone commented on the word lateral thinking
According to Paul Sloane's Lateral Thinking Puzzlers, "Edward de Bono first coined the phrase 'lateral thinking' to refer to a process of thinking that is different from the normal linear, or forward thinking to which we are accustomed. In traditionally reasoning, we progress logically from one step to the next. However, in lateral thinking, you must deliberately abandon this process in order to eliminate inhibitions. You then try to solve problems in different, random, or lateral ways.
"In asking questions about a situation, you should first test all assumptions. Then make broad attacks on the problems before homing in on promising lines of enquiry. Above all, you should try to think laterally, that is to cast away conventional approaches and to make leaps of imagination."
March 24, 2012