15 january '14
Lateral thinking vs. vertical thinking
Today I started reading the book of Edward de Bono. The book is called 'Lateral thinking, step by step creativity explained'.
Learning for me is also reading books about the subject. And to make it more powerful for me I make notes during the reading sessions.
A few notes of today:
- One can only admire a result but one can learn to use a process
- Liberation from old ideas and the stimulation of new ones are twin aspects of lateral thinking
- Lateral thinking is digging holes on different locations, while vertical thinking is digging the same hole deeper.
- You can't dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
- Lateral thinking is a very basic part of thinking in general
Lateral thinking is
--> restructuring old patterns and provoking new ones
--> the use of information for the effect
--> deliberately seeking irrelevant information
--> generative
Vertical thinking is
--> selecting only what's relevant
--> selective
--> making a conclusion after a pre determined series of steps
--> developing ideas which are generated by lateral thinking
--> proving and developing concept patterns
--> digging the same hole deeper
No comments:
Post a Comment