Lateral Thinking: Edward De Bono
Yup, I am back to my reading habbits and have picked up a new book to add to my collection.
The last one that i finished was Harry Potter, but this one is a totally different genre.
This one is called “Lateral Thinking”: Edward De Bono (my kind of book)
Got this off the internet as i like to research my book before i spend time on them
Lateral thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono, a Maltese psychologist, physician and writer. It first appeared in the title of his book The Use of Lateral Thinking, published in 1967. De Bono defines lateral thinking as methods of thinking concerned with changing concepts and perception. Lateral thinking is about reasoning that is not immediately obvious and about ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.
One of the first puzzles that i used to understand the concept was this: “Teaching to think out of the box”
One of the classic lateral thinking puzzles involves nine dots, as in the example above. The challenge is to connect them all in four straight lines, without lifting the pen or pencil from the page. When you figure this one out you will have a new appreciation for the expression “thinking outside of the box.” Lateral thinking puzzles like this help you increase your brain power by getting you out of thinking “ruts.” They habituate you to creative thought as a normal function of thinking and problem solving.
See if you can work this out.
Deadline to finish this book: 31st Oct 2007
