Increase Your Problem Solving Skills
I took it upon myself to begin researching the difference between two types of thinking methods. I discovered something; I know it's going to change my life if I apply the best type of thinking when I come across problems in my life. I believe that your mindset and actions have to work together if you want to grow in life.
I used to sit in my room and wonder if I would ever get what I wanted in life. It was not until I started learning and educating myself that I began to see my life move in a better place. I began to unlock the key to being happier. I do not want to say that I am always happy because that is false. However, I am a person who has more happiness and joy. I contribute a good portion to it to my faith. It keeps my going in those tough times.
Another crucial thing that has increased my happiness is my mindset.Your mindset and ability to understand yourself has a direct correlation with your success. As you grow older, you begin to understand that not everything you think is correct.
Lateral thinking is solving problems by an indirect and creative approach, typically through viewing the problem in a new and unusual light.
However, as you think about things in a lateral way you will see the following benefits.
? Achieve stability both socially and emotionally
? Limit levels of anger and aggression
? Improve personal and professional life
When you think about something in a vertical manner, you are problem-solving based on your reflection of the issue. For example, if you are currently trying to make more income and are applying vertical thinking. Ask yourself how can I? Do you conduct an analysis of your current state? When you think to yourself in a vertical manner you believe that there is only one logical answer to the dilemma. In this case that is by asking a raise. How can you get that raise? By providing more value in my job and negotiating compensation for it.
If you apply lateral thinking, you begin to assess multiple scenarios in which you can make a wide range of decisions. For example, you can get another job, you can start a business, or you can have side hustles to make extra income. You are not constrained by one solution.
Essentially the difference between lateral and vertical thinking is tackling issues in your life differently to solve problems. One is thinking creatively and another is thinking logically.
Check out this graph for a demonstration.
If you are an entrepreneur you should have lateral thinking in spades. Why is that? The reason why is because you are looking to solve problems in the market. For example, Henry Ford once said, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." The creation of the car engine can serve to exemplify the short-comings of vertical thinking as we would still be riding horses today if an original approach to transportation was not realized.”
Are you a kind of person who applies lateral thinking or vertical? How are you solving problems in your life? Are you trying to make your life better?
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