{"id":983,"date":"2004-12-22T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2004-12-22T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-22T21:23:00","slug":"983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>SOME LATERAL THINKING ABOUT THINKING<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m busy again today, preparing for the holidays so I thought I&#8217;d leave something light but stimulating &#8211; some concepts by creativity theorist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwarddebono.com\/about.htm\">Dr. Edward DeBono<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#990000;\">&#8220;If you do not design the future someone or something else will design it for you. &#8220;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#990000;\"><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#000099;\">&#8220;Perception is by far the most important part of thinking. Most errors of thinking are errors of perception. If perception is faulty then no amount of logical excellence will give a useful answer.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">&#8220;It is always very difficult to look at our own perceptions, because we cannot get outside ourselves<\/span><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#33cc00;\">&#8220;Challenge means: &#8216;Let&#8217;s stop and think about this. Does it have to be done this way?&#8217; &#8220;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#663366;\">&#8220;The route from A to B is not the same as the route from B to A.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><\/span><\/strong><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOME LATERAL THINKING ABOUT THINKING I&#8217;m busy again today, preparing for the holidays so I thought I&#8217;d leave something light but stimulating &#8211; some concepts by creativity theorist Dr. Edward DeBono: &#8220;If you do not design the future someone or something else will design it for you. &#8220; &#8220;Perception is by far the most important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}