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By *orny PT OP Man
over a year ago
Peterborough |
Just found out that the died 9 days ago, aged 88.
I remember his Sunday morning programmes on telly, in the 1980s. He really got me thinking
This is the creative mind, who termed the expression lateral thinking; which got adopted by big business and rebranded (like you do) as thinking outside the box.
By inspiration and imagination to solve problems by looking at them from unexpected perspectives. Lateral thinking involves discarding the obvious, leaving behind traditional modes of thought, and throwing away preconceptions.
Tim Berner Lee, inventer of the WWW at CERN sees the world as hyperlinks. a great example would be CERNProf Brian CoxD:reamThings can only get betterNew LabourTony BlairOld LabourJohn SmithJohn Smith's??? Hmm, sod it let's down tools and nip off to the pub for a quick one...That's Lateral thinking too. I think like this all of the time: it's a coping with a bad memory that develops a mind like that.
Other ideas could be staring out the clouds, always good on a sunny day, reading a random book, looking at old family albums or even staring at kaleidoscopes. The most famous example of this is psychedelic music where mind altering drugs such as LSD, alters the state of mind of said musicians to create something totally different and possibly unique. This relationship between drugs and music has been discussed to death.
The trick is how to change your thought process from compliant to creative, without resorting to drugs, mind you some architects have a lot to answer for...
CS Lewis said "Schools tell children what to think, not how to think" great minds think alike.
Edward once said...
"Humour is by far the most significant behaviour of the human mind.
You may find this surprising. If humour is so significant, why has it been so neglected by traditional philosophers, psychologists and information scientists?
Why humour is so significant and why it has been so neglected by traditional thinkers together form the key to this book.
Humour tells us more about how the brain works as mind, than does any other behaviour of the mind - including reason.
It indicates that our traditional thinking methods, and our thinking about these methods, have been based on the wrong model of information system.
It tells us something about perception which we have traditionally neglected in favour of logic.
It tells us directly about the possibility of changes in perception.
It shows us that these changes can be followed by instant changes in emotion - something that can never be achieved by logic."
(So does that make me a genius then?
Pungent: noun. A bloke who tells rotten jokes.)
So in order to tell jokes you need to know concept, confusion, alliteration, context, more word play and most of all, your victim's sense of humour level and knowledge base. Knowing how far to push your luck with a risqué joke, displays a certain use and abuse of dimplomacy...Should I make a joke of that? Yeah! Do it.
Tahnk you Edward, you really made me think.
RIP |
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