How to Use Lateral Thinking & Generate Brilliant Ideas
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- How to Use Lateral Thinking and Generate Brilliant Ideas
The concept of lateral thinking emerged from the work of Edward de Bono on how the mind works and it is de Bono who coined the term Lateral thinking in 1967. It was first promoted as an insight tool that could be used for problem solving and it can be useful to you also.
In this video, Dr. Baker explains the benefits of lateral thinking.
More information can be found at Dr. Edward de Bono's website: www.edwdebono.com/lateral-thi...
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OH GOD BLESS YOU.
Now that's the kind of lateral thinking we need.
Thanks man
You sir are brilliant
Within 5 minutes, you speak about the most wanted skill for me in my life
One trick I use to get myself thinking laterally is humor. Like how funny a situation is if you look at it from another perspective or misunderstand it. It helps me recognize and empathize with others and clear up misunderstandings. It's not judgemental either so it's a very good interpersonal skill.
For all my life people judged about me as "being strange". Remarks like: "What has that got to do with it?" Like: "You go from this subject to that subject." A few years ago there was an article in the Huffington post: Are you a high creative person? with 20 questions. My score was 19/20. And no doubt about what to choose as answers. Thanks to Todd Sampson and this video I know that I am highly creative. I see solutions for problems everywhere and I don't understand why people don't see the solutions. Many great inventions were already invented by me years ago and I did nothing with it. I give you an example of my lateral thinking. During my law study at Leiden university we had in the college room a discussion of the structure of thinking during penal law class. I made a remark that I did not understand why the way we think about the same issue in penal law class is different from that during civil law class. All 200 other students looked at me strangely........ Then the professor said: "We are here in penal law class not in civil law class.."
Later one student came to me and said: "I never thought about that way, but I think you are right. Why is there a difference. It can't be justified." What I mean to say is this. I think that highly creative people are treated very poorly by other narrow minded people. And the term "narrow minded" nails it precisely.
Any tip to improve creativity?
"Challenge assumptions, suspend judgement, It's okay to be wrong- Dr Lucie Baker . Absolutely brilliant, and straight to the point. Now to put that into practice!
Awesome explanation!
My thought process has always (and I'm old now!) been what I considered "idiosyncratic." But thanks to your explanation, I suspect I tend towards lateral thinking. Why? Because I often have a weak hold on "existing patterns." For example, I got into trouble in Sunday School due to numerous objections to lessons as taught. One Easter I found "The Greatest Story Ever Heard" appalling, thinking it "The Most Horrible Story Ever Heard" -- greatest man on earth murdered because people didn't want to listen to him. PLUS he died, then came back to life! I feared this would allow my fellows to take unnecessary risks, like jumping off the roof of their house: "If I die, I'll just raise myself up like that Jesus guy." I realize my understanding of religion was perhaps flawed, but I stood up and objected. My instructors (who my wife likes to remind me were not theologians but rather farmer's wives) were shocked and never fully were able to restore order.
AND finally, I'm a great "brainstormer." I get LOTS of ideas -- most of them terrible, but if quantity is the goal, I'm the guy.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Lateral thinking is very interesting for brainstorming. That’s for sure. The difficulty is when you have to deal with people who want quick and “reliable answers... This is the dilemma I’m currently facing.... As far as I remember, I have always thought lateral and I’ve always gotten a hard time dealing with the more common way of thinking....
We can shake hands.....
I think frame negotiaties that, and it doesn`t work without love(,) of all things. It is at least one whole other independent language.
The fact that she said "Think outside of the "Square,"" was pretty damn lateral.
Or throw the square away
Read some of Dr de Bono's books many years ago...and laughed out loud at them!!!...because his thinking tools were so brilliant they gave birth to so many good ideas!! His tools are an eye-opener, everyone should have them!
Thankyou. So much very informative.
I'm a very lateral thinker. It surprises my friends and coworkers. They are mostly vertical oriented. As a carpenter there are thing people have been doing for hundreds of years that I think are ineffective and a waste of energy so I come up with new ways to do thing all the time!
We can shake hands. I know EXACTLY how you feel...
Thank you!! You just made it easier to understand non-linear thinking!
Very informative. Thank you. ☀️
Great video, it helped me understand what was lateral thinking. Excellent!
Simple and to the point. Good for the novice. Thanks.
This is a good explantaion.
Thank u so much.. Lovely video
wow this was incredibly insightful thank you so much for this video really clarified it in such a short amount of time! Thank you :)
Very encouraging video. Please tell us more about methods of practising lateral thinking.
Thank you Madam
This is so important for us ,an architect :)
true say
I think that the best train to improve the lateral thinking is Drawing. When the draw comes at it self, so the drawings that are causal
I wasn't a lateral thinker but now I will try my best to be like that ✨💯👍🏻
I am just now, at the age of 61, grasping the difference between the vertical and the lateral. Occupy your mind with other interests that run parallel to the subject that stymied your mind. Perhaps a fresh approach will reveal itself. Does that make sense?
I use both depending on the need I have
So from de Bono's teaching it seems that he is saying we should try to be both Vertical thinker & Lateral thinker as well, the former one as traditional common majority of people, while the latter a supplement way for more and possibly better ideas, instead of being just one of the above two. He didn't mean that we should give up the usual and common Vertical thinking way, but meaning to add more way of thinking which is more effective and creative one, that's Lateral Thinking.
I would like to believe am a lateral thinker, But am not sure if that's just me stroking my ego. I will keep this video in mind, In the work place this kind of thinking can help me bring novel solutions to problems.
I think you are a lateral thinker. Do the Huffington post test for highly creative people and you know..
I am always first write my problems in one piece of paper and find the various solutions for it.
Jayesh Vaghela do you staple them together after that or you just leave them there hanging?
Hole punch them and shove it in a 3 inch binder
Shouldn't it depend ... some situations require lateral others straightforward no?
It is sometime problematic whe the scool teach people to follow "the right way" the moore you do the moore scors you make, and I hear - I gaind 120 points, by doing this examina - doing what you have been told, and getting rewarded - does not make people creative - I do not mean wee schould turn everything upside down, just get out of the "box" so wee find new ideas,
fx in technology. Best from Sweden.
Says nothing on how to use it, just explains what it is and stating the obvious.
First principles thinking (FPT) is great. Is fPT same as lateral thinking?
First Principles mainly encircles around the idea of breaking down complex situations and problems into their most basic parts, and THEN using lateral thinking to come up with different solutions or outcomes.
In a sense, they could become compatible with one another, I suppose it depends on what puzzle pieces of the problem are left over.
in my experience "problem solvers" use both. lateral for new problems and vertical for known problems. switching between, i think, depends on knowing or being to identify the pattern. if known use logic, if not, take the gloves off. you are going to be here a while...
Not easy to do but not hard either, perfect middle ground.
Put the problem on paper. List all possible solutions. Choose the best solution and see what happens. If it doesn't work, does it need more time? If it still doesn't work choose a different solution. Finally, pick other's brains as to a more workable solution. ("in a multitude of counsellors there is wisdom" (Bible) If it's taking too much time and your desire is waning, time to think if the desire was worth it in the first place. Get rid of the desire!.
I highly encourage brain storming as a great way to question everything and come up with set of ideas to pick one from
Random juxtaposition, concept challenge, and stepping stone.
Everyone has both Lateral and Vertical thinking. We are suppose to use both. Would that mean that people who can't or wont use both are mentally under developed or crazy? Remember that time the Lateral had to convince the Verticals that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around?
I wish you gave some tangible examples
"Which is the quickest way to the city centre?"
Vertical thinker ......"Take the motorway"
Lateral thinker......"Are you going by foot or by car?"
"I'm going by car"
"That will be the quickest way then"
A problem solved by numerous possibilities,is a problem quartered..
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I think I’m a diagonal thinker lol
Genius
i was mocked and teased by a lot of human beings. Because i was lateral thinker. And i was told that i was talking unnecessary.
Needed to revise the playback speed to 1.5× to let this trigger any lateral comprehension, let aside thinking.
Want to be a lateral thinker
out of the square, out of the box just sounds better.
pretty
*You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper. Which means that you cannot solve a problem by repeating the same strategy. (Because the creative breakthrough is often the result of efforts focused in a different directions.)*
Don't read involve n engage. Anybody who is literate can read and understand. Share how YOU use lateral thinking.
I thought somebody gonna show some real examples instead reading about it.
Nah this is very informative right?
that was a waste of 5mins 08 secs. Nothing learnt there. I was expecting something earth shattering. But got SFA!
Very informative stuff here is what they say tho so someone got something from it
This lady needs some lateral thinking applied to her presentation in the hope of preventing her audience from falling asleep...
You need to be less mean
I hate the fact that she's always looking to my right.
This is an attempt to avoid logical conclusions even though lateral thinking can be good in the creative world is, it does nothing for people in the logical world. This is why she didn’t give any examples that one.
Don't quit your day job
she isn't a lateral thinker.