Lateral

This morning I managed to be sitting in a room when a consultant compared de Bono’s “Lateral Thinking” with some other book by a psychologist that peddles the line that we are shaped by our environment.

De Bono was held up as an icon of “mind over matter”; the triumph of rational thinking.

Essentially the argument was this;  there are those that use the environment as an excuse and there are those that believe that the power of rational thought can overcome the impacts of the environment.

No one mentioned lateral feeling.