Traditional Thinking Is All About "what Is"

What Is Urgent Will Always Take Precedence Over What Is Important.

Lateral Thinking Is Concerned Not With Playing With The Existing Pieces But With Seeking To Change Those Very Pieces. It Is Concerned With The Perception Part Of Thinking. This Is Where We Organise The External World Into The Pieces We Can Then 'process'.

In A Sense, Words Are Encyclopedias Of Ignorance Because They Freeze Perceptions At One Moment In History And Then Insist We Continue To Use These Frozen Perceptions When We Should Be Doing Better.

Lateral Thinking... Is The Process Of Using Information To Bring About Creativity And Insight Restructuring. Lateral Thinking Can Be Learned, Practised And Used. It Is Possible To Acquire Skill In It Just As It Is Possible To Acquire Skill In Mathematics.

Some People Are Aware Of Another Sort Of Thinking Which... Leads To Those Simple Ideas That Are Obvious Only After They Have Been Thought Of... The Term 'lateral Thinking' Has Been Coined To Describe This Orther Sort Of Thinking; 'vertical Thinking' Is Used To Denote The Conventional Logical Process.