Lateral Thinking

LATERAL THINKING

Lateral Thinking is concerned with changing concepts and perceptions.

It is about reasoning that is not immediately obvious and about ideas

that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.

Lateral thinking is always trying to generate alternatives and to restructure patterns. However,

lateral thinking is never a judgment or an attack.

vertical thinking:

- rightness is what matters.

- it selects a pathway (and stops searching) by excluding other pathways.

- it selects the best approach.

lateral thinking:

- richness is what matters.

- does not select, opens up other pathways; generates many alternatives even after one has found a promising one.

- generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.