Lateral thinking _ creativity step by step

["300 Summary In order to use lateral thinking effectively one needs a practical language tool. Such a tool is necessary to allow one to use information in the special way required by lateral thinking and also to indicate to others what is being done. This tool is po. po is an insight tool. po is the laxative of language. It acts to relax the rigidity of the tight patterns so easily formed by mind and to provoke new patterns. Lateral thinking is not concerned with generating doubt for the sake of doubt or chaos for the sake of chaos. Lateral thinking acknowledges the extreme usefulness of order and of pattern. But it emphasizes the need for changing these to bring them up to date and make them even more useful. Lateral thinking particularly emphasizes the dangers of rigid patterns which the mind is so apt to construct because of the way it handles information.","EDUCATION Creativity Step by Step EDWARD de BONO \\\"The underlying arg,ument of the book is that there are two kinds of thinking-vertical and lateral. Most of us are educated to think vertically, to go from one logical step to the next, moving all the time towards the one correct solution of our problem. We are not usually educated to be creative, to generate idea after idea. , . . \\\"Dr. de Bono argues that the function of vertical, logical thinking is to exclude what is wrong. It is a very useful way of thinking but it is not the only useful way. To claim it is, is the sort of intellectual arrogance that makes creative thinking unlikely... . \\\"This could be a very useful book, for teachers and non-teachers alike. Dr. de Bono does not claim to be able to turn us all into Miltons, Da Vincis, and Einsteins ... but his techniques provide an alternative to just sitting around waiting for the Muse to appear. The Muse never appears to most of us-hence the value of this book.\\\"-DAVID COHEN, Times Educational Supplement \u2022 HarperPerennial ISBN 0-06-090325-2 . . A Division ofHarperCollinsPublishers 90000 USA $13.00 CANADA $18.00 9 7800 51 0873"]