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Lateral Thinking
Creativity (in terms of new ideas and new perceptions) is not a mystical gift
but a learnable skill. The formal and deliberate processes of lateral thinking
are all based on a consideration of the behaviour of information in a self-
organising system, such as the nerve networks of the human brain - for
which we should be most grateful. They also form asymmetric patterns: the
route from A to B is not the same as the route from B to A.
The formal techniques of lateral thinking include: provocation and
movement; challenge; concept fans and concept triangles; random entry,
etc. They are so powerful that in one afternoon on company (under the
guidance of Carol Ferguson in South Africa) generated 21,000 ideas using
just one technique. In Singapore, Peter and Linda Low ran a workshop from
which came eight patents.
For formal training in the method, please contact distributors listed under
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