Lateral Thinking as a way of Teaching Object Think
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Lateral Thinking is a set of related techniques primarily intended to support creative thinking Lateral Thinking is based on the idea that the Mind is a pattern making and using system The Mind is a Self-Organizing System, not a Passive Recording System The Mind reacts to every input by attempting to fit it into what is already known n This is a good source of Optical Illusions, since it is not possible to reserve judgement
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