What you'll train
Edward de Bono coined 'lateral thinking' for ideas that jump sideways - past the first reasonable answer to a more surprising one. These puzzles ask you to break frames, not solve equations.
- ●Practice reframing problems
- ●Suspend the first 'obvious' answer
- ●Find solutions in unexpected categories
The neuroscience
Insight problem solving is associated with a burst of right-anterior-temporal-lobe activity - the 'aha!' moment - paired with relaxation of executive constraints.