Kid reasoning - Lateral thinking

• The kid and the ice-cream

• Ask more whys&questions Inquiry learning

• General

• what? Think outside the box

  • Originated by Edward de Bono in 1967

• techniques

  • kill assumptions - stop taking solutions/problems for granted
    • a box is never just a box -
    • what we do everyday can be different -
    • catch the invisible problem
  • reframing problems
    • Swapping - cats are owners, books read us
    • Reversal - what if we did the opposite?
    • Root problem - cause n effect
    • mixing - re-mixing
      • ideas
      • fields
      • principles
      • properties
      • ideas
      • Using symbolic language
      • metaphor
      • emotions
      • AKA associative thinking
  • Unexpected solutions
    • Boxes management -
      • see boxes before - how we get the problem
      • delete, combine, and add boxes
    • Chaos - absurd/illogical ideas & link them together
    • Imagination is the only limit
      • We limit ourself by the “I cannot do it” factor. Think above it
      • What if we started creating/OtherNoun things like if only imagination was the limit?
    • Zen kōans - paradoxical questions/stories/statements
      • to get non-linear insights
      • used in Zen Buddhism
      • eg
        • “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
        • “What was your original face before your parents were born?”