Creative Thinking
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linear thinking: one thought or direction with a million variations. You might think you have many ideas, but its just changing one idea various times.
lateral thinking is the opposite. Instead of refining and changing that one idea, you come up with as many completely different ideas as you can. It helps to think about whatever it is your creating from various viewpoints to create various interpretations on the subject.
I had a workshop with anette lenz and her way of lateral thinking was creating a huge list of everything that had to do with the subject of her project. Then made another one from someone elses viewpoint. Example flowers: you write everything you can think of that has to do with flowers, then you switch & make a list from the point of view of the flower itself, then the point of view of a florist. In the end you take 3 items off of the entire group of lists (3 lists & 1 word from each works nicely) and use it as the basis for whatever your making. If you get distracted, go back to the 3 words.
Strange, but it worked well.