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Lateral Thinking

Lateral thinking is an approach to solving problems that is creative, indirect, and does not rely on logical step by step reasoning. Lateral thinking is effectively looking at things sideways ( laterally), or from a different viewpoint. Pietro Lorenzetti (left) simply peeled away the front of the building to show us what is inside. For artists and creative problem solving in general, lateral thinking can be a way of...


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