Lateral Thinking

Edward De Bono said, “Lateral thinking is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.”. Like the photo of the rat finding a way in the maze, everyone should be able to solve thing laterally without overthinking. Problems that seem to be hard could be solved easily by thinking laterally.  Lateral thinking also can be used for developing or inventing things by combining existed ideas. For example, who ever imagine a fried ice cream? Flour coated frozen ice cream is quickly deep-fried in oil, which is results crispy shell around it. It gives you warm and cool feeling at the same time. Another example is the black noodle, people creatively use squid ink that often got dumped as a natural food coloring. Without giving the noodle certain taste. Besides the black noodle, there is also green noodle that made from veggies and red noodle from tomato. This is also a creative way in giving the kids nutritious meal. That is why we need to develop things that already existed to new one.