What are horizontal thinking and vertical thinking?

Lateralthinking, as the name implies, is that this person's thinking has the characteristics of horizontal and wide development. People with this kind of thinking characteristics are not too narrow-minded and good at drawing inferences from others. There is an image metaphor, this kind of thinking is like a river. When you meet a wide place, it will naturally spread out. What is lacking is that the depth is not enough.

The so-called vertical thinking refers to the thinking form that is carried out in an orderly, predictable and stylized direction within a structural scope. It is a clear and logical thinking mode that conforms to the development direction of things and human cognitive habits, and follows the clues from low to high, from shallow to deep, and from beginning to end. Our normal life. This way of thinking is mostly used for learning. Corresponding to lateral thinking.

In real life and thinking activities, horizontal thinking and vertical thinking are often (and need to be) combined. In order to strengthen the depth and breadth, we should also combine reverse thinking and divergent thinking.