Brief introduction of lateral thinking method

The so-called lateral thinking method is a thinking method that gets rid of either-or thinking mode, and also a thinking method that gets rid of logical thinking and linear thinking.

In lateral thinking, people are committed to putting forward different views. Every different viewpoint is not derived from each other, but produced independently.

In traditional thinking, people are often limited by logical thinking and linear thinking, so people are generally good at analysis and judgment. In this way, people are generally concerned about "why" rather than "what else may become", so people's creativity is limited. In order to expand people's creativity, Dr. debono put forward the concepts of "lateral thinking" and "parallel thinking", and now these concepts have become synonymous with innovative thinking.

We call traditional thinking "vertical thinking". Just thinking according to the established thinking route, you can't escape the fetters of the original thinking frame (also known as thinking set), so you can't think creatively.

Longitudinal thinking is a traditional way of thinking represented by logic and linearity. The most fundamental feature of this mode of thinking is that it is deduced step by step according to the premise, and the conclusion is drawn according to the causal relationship, and no mistakes are allowed. Of course, it has its rationality, such as induction and deduction, which are all very important thinking methods, but if a person can only use this vertical thinking method, he can't be creative.

Different from vertical thinking, horizontal thinking does not consider the certainty of things too much, but the possibility of multiple choices; My concern is not how to improve old ideas, but how to put forward new ones. Not blindly pursuing correctness, but pursuing richness.