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lateral thinking
[ lat-er-uhl thing-king ]
noun
- an approach to problem solving that involves nontraditional thought processes such as free association of ideas, creative analogy, pattern recognition, intuition, etc.: Compare vertical thinking.
This position requires lateral thinking, collaborative skills, and the ability to deal with ambiguity.
lateral thinking
noun
- a way of solving problems by rejecting traditional methods and employing unorthodox and apparently illogical means
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of lateral thinking1
Example Sentences
This year the public has been challenged to decode the names of UK landmarks, testing skills including codebreaking, maths and lateral thinking.
This year's puzzle challenges the public to decode the names of UK landmarks, testing skills like codebreaking, maths and lateral thinking.
If these sorts of solutions to geological problems seem to come from left field, Dr. Petermann and Dr. Fastovsky both point out, that’s because they take a certain amount of lateral thinking to invent.
The intelligence agency said pupils would need to employ all their skills of lateral thinking, ingenuity and perseverance to be successful.
He also said that dyslexic people’s ability to “think differently”, with a higher likelihood of having skills like visualisation and lateral thinking, was becoming more highly prized by employers.
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