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The Need To Be Right All The Time Is The Biggest Bar To New Ideas.

Lateral Thinking Is Concerned Not With Playing With The Existing Pieces But With Seeking To Change Those Very Pieces. It Is Concerned With The Perception Part Of Thinking. This Is Where We Organise The External World Into The Pieces We Can Then 'process'.

With Vertical Thinking One May Look For Different Approaches Until One Finds A Promising One. With Lateral Thinking One Goes On Generating As Many Approaches As One Can Even After One Has Found A Promising One. With Vertical Thinking One Is Trying To Select The Best Approach But With Lateral Thinking One Is Generating Different Approaches For The Sake Of Generating Them.

(...) Being Right All The Time Acquires A Huge Importance In Education, And There Is This Terror Of Being Wrong. The Ego Is So Tied To Being Right That Later On In Life You Are Reluctant To Accept That You Are Ever Wrong, Because You Are Defending Not The Idea But Your Self-esteem. (...) This Terror Of Being Wrong Means That People Have Enormous Difficulties In Changing Ideas.

The Church Has Its Problems, But The Older I Get, The More Comfort I Find There.