If you’re interested in speed of thought, lateral thinking can be x10 faster than logical thinking and so the end point of lateral thinking can be value creation.
But, what do we mean by ‘speed of thought’?
• Speed of thought is how lonG it takes you to change your mind. cvs2bvs.
• Speed of thought is how long it takes you to escape from your current viewpoint. cvs2bvs.
• Speed of thought is how long it takes you to stop defending your current viewpoint. cvs2bvs.
• Speed of thought is how long it takes you to switch to a much better viewpoint. cvs2bvs.
The biggest roadbump to speed of thought is your fear of being wrong. The most common cause of cognitive inertia is mistake-phobia, the morbid fear of making a mistake. Excessive use of logic makes us fearful thinkers. Logic is a natural thinking style for humans because it is driven by the strong emotion of fear. The fear of mistakes. Western education has put too great an emphasis on logic, the kind of binary thinking focused on judgement of right vs wrong or good vs bad or black vs white etc etc.
At the level of human2human relationships, many causes of daily conflict often are exacerbated by binary I-am-right-and-you-are-wrong logic-style thinking. Our obsession with logic is bad philosophy. Our over-use of logic has made us very slow thinkers. Very fearful thinkers. Very aggressive thinkers.
The search for ‘better’
Especially in the business context. Most business thinking is far too slow and costly. Lateral thinking is a tool for speed of thought – for creating better solutions. Better strategies. Better opportunities. Better attitudes. Better timing. Better outcomes. Better returns. Better results. Better consequences, Better Futures, etc etc.
In the last lessons you considered TPFs for Your Job and Your Company. In this lesson consider a Three Possible Futures for Your Industry.
DFQ #08: Do a TPF for your industry?
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1. Encourage an environment where the staff can lead changes to how we operate.
2. Adoption of a mix of automated technologies and staff.
3. Focus on empowering staff with more responsibilities and power.
In the Adult training industry
1: Ensure all lessons taught are withing an overall framework and never as standalone techniques the student must later figure out when to use in the job environment.
2: Always teach lessons in a project based format. Ensure that the students are learning that specific techniques work in concert with other techniques and concepts.
3: Move the focus to learning actual abilities that carry on beyond the classroom rather then specific data points/techniques that can be pointed to and claimed as being covered by the class. Opinion: Less may be taught but more will be gained.
1. Acquaintances of mine located at different cities in India could start similar charitable foundations that I am thinking of – one for cancer cases, one for Parkinson’s cases and one for Schizophrenia cases.
2. A system for coordination between the said foundations could be set up at the national level to create a support system for the affected patients, their families/care givers.
3. To start off only those who are homeless, not getting medical treatment and similar such cases could be taken up for comprehensive support.
1. The same as we have now – a fragmented and non-standardized industry which doesn’t recycle effectively and efficiently leading to need to landfill or export potentially valuable materials
2. A Design, use, collection reprocessing and demand system which works in harmony to recover and reprocess waste in the most efficient possible way, and draws the minimum possible cost from society, and create jobs within Australia using Australia waste resources to create recycled content for Australian use – extend this premise to a place where our recycling industry becomes so efficient, we demand scale, and import waste materials for reprocessing and develop a value added export market for recyclate!
3. A system which is burdened by a high cost taxing or EPR system, which improves environmental outcomes, but at a cost which is wasteful in administration expense and creates imbalances in competition.
1. Fortifying businesses and individuals against likely future global events
2. Health and care sector consultation
3. Evidence based media representation
In the future:
1. There will be application of robotics, automatic control and artificial intelligence techniques at all levels of agricultural production. Smart devices connected to the Internet will control the farming system.
2. Agricultural industries will be developed by the seashores to obtain scarce water supply which will almost vanish inland due to less rain and high temperature. Solar and wind powers will be used to run desalination plants to water vertical and integrated (fish, poultry and cropping) farming systems.
3. Various food products (like artificial meat, milk, fish, egg etc.) will be manufactured in the factories for better economic return and to reduce environmental impacts.
1. Innovation
2. Change
3.Create opportunities
X10 agricultural productivity, sustainability and reduced environmental impact through investment in high-risk R&D projects that have tangible outcomes
X10 freedom to operate for R&D and innovation
X10 uptake and deployment of science and technology through improved access to IP
1. Field crop agriculture will be revolutionised with autonomous vehicles within the next ten years which will change the type of labour that is required on farm. Increasingly technological skills will be required.
2. A research investment system that rewards risk taking will increase innovation. Currently a lot of research funding rewards mediocrity because it is easy to achieve on projects that are conservative.
3. Increasing regulation on agro-chemicals will demand more innovative solutions for crop protection to replace their use in modern cropping systems.
In Agriculture:
1. Large rise in regional small “cottage” farm industry, due to affluence.
2. Great increase in factory farming near cities – climate controlled vertical crops, cell-meat production.
3. Drone and remote robot maintenance and harvesting for large crops and trees.