Articles tagged with: creative thought
Mental Performance »
By Steven Gillman
A definition or two of lateral thinking and a few lateral thinking puzzles.
What exactly is lateral thinking? For starters, it’s a word invented by Edward DeBono in 1967. At some point since then it became a part of the English language (it is in the Oxford English Dictionary and most others now). DeBono, on his official web site, says there are several ways to define it.
Lateral thinking is a way of attacking problems from other angles, as opposed to the more traditional linear and logical ways. DeBono uses …
