All Blog Posts Tagged 'lateral' (5)

I'd like to know if someone can help me on how to extract concepts.

Mr De Bono says they breed ideas, and they are one of the key components in (for example) having a beautiful mind.

On the other hand, concepts are not definitions, neither practical ideas.

What would be the concept of the Human Hair (head) for example. Could something like our hair have a concept?

do concepts have anything to do with function?

for example a so-called "concept-car" is that…

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An important concept in lateral thinking is Value.

Could it be developed?



Recently I was thinking it over and devised a possible game.

1. Take an object

2. Take a radomn choosen value from a list of values, f.i.this one or this one from living more.

3. Try to built the value chosen into the…

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We know that one of the great difficulties in getting people to understand the absolute necessity for creativity and lateral thinking is that all good lateral solutions will appear logical in hindsight. So, if the solution is logical we don't need lateral thinking only logical thinking.…

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There is another big hole that is most often missing from most people’s “bag of tricks” concerning the training of new skills. It is the zero state of ‘being at ease’. This would be a resting state in between activating one trigger for a habitually conditioned routine that would be inserted between endless calls for action.



Being able to "think of nothing" is actually a skill. Problems come when our natural capacity for having a ‘resting state’ becomes polluted with too many… Continue

The aim of critical thinking is to assess the validity of a reasoning. It does so by checking the reasoning on internal inconsistenties and wrong deductions. It also tries to detect hidden assumptions, which is the hardest part, because the thinking happens within the exsisting logical bubble. That seems like the Baron von Munschausen, who saved himself out of a marsh by pulling himself out by his hairs.



In my opinion it would be much easier to detect hidden assumptions from outside… Continue