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555: Lateral Thinking for Innovative Solutions with Paul Sloane

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Lucas Rockwood

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

There’s a saying: “If you want a new idea, read a history book.” That might be true 95 percent of the time, but for the remaining five percent of the time, particularly when looking for problem-solving techniques, the solution might demand a completely new approach. Lateral thinking is the idea of entering from the side door, flipping the problem on its head, and spitballing completely new solutions. On this week’s podcast, we discuss how to apply this technique to your life.

Listen and learn:

  • Why innovation seems to have reached a lull
  • How to break free from your siloed information feed
  • What if everything you assumed was wrong or misguided?
  • What if the solution to your current problems was easy, obvious, and simple?

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ABOUT OUR GUEST

Paul Sloane is a UK-based author, speaker, and consultant, specializing in innovation and creative thinking. He has written several books on these topics, including: Lateral Thinking Puzzlers, The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, and De Bono's Thinking Course.

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there's a saying that if you want a new idea, you should read history. The concept being that almost

0:06.5

everything we consider innovative or breakthrough is actually a rehash of something from the past.

0:11.8

This is true, maybe 95% of the time, but for that very small but important minority, that 5% of

0:18.5

the time, the challenges that we're trying to figure out in our families, in our work, in our

0:23.4

society, the old thinking, the thinking, the thought process that got us to where we are is probably

0:29.2

not going to be the solution that moves things forward. In fact, what if the entire way in which

0:35.8

we're thinking about the problem is wrong and what if the solutions were easy and obvious and simple

0:42.2

and maybe even free or low cost on this week's podcast will be exploring lateral thinking.

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If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. I'm a he'll be teacher and a trainer,

0:51.3

a serial entrepreneur. I'm a father of three. Firstly, I'm a student. I like to learn things.

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Welcome to the show everyone. Lucas here today shows called lateral thinking for innovative

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solutions. I am joined here with Paul Sloan. Paul is a UK-based author, a speaker and a consultant.

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