An Expert Is Someone Who

Lateral Thinking... Is The Process Of Using Information To Bring About Creativity And Insight Restructuring. Lateral Thinking Can Be Learned, Practised And Used. It Is Possible To Acquire Skill In It Just As It Is Possible To Acquire Skill In Mathematics.

Analysis Is Simplifying, Breaking Down Things Into Parts, Picking Out Strands And Elements. Analysis Is Comparing Unknown Things With Things That Are Known. Analysis Also Involves Picking Out Relationships And Putting Them Back Together As A Whole.

Sometimes The Situation Is Only A Problem Because It Is Looked At In A Certain Way. Looked At In Another Way, The Right Course Of Action May Be So Obvious That The Problem No Longer Exists.

They Enjoy Thinking. They Enjoy Being Creative. They Enjoy Having Ideas. Most People Do Not Enjoy Thinking At All.

One Can Think Of A Secretary Actively Operating A Filing System, Of A Librarian Actively Cataloguing Books, Of A Computer Actively Sorting Out Information. The Mind However Does Not Actively Sort Out Information. The Information Sorts Itself Out And Organises Itself Into Patterns. The Mind Is Passive. The Mind Only Provides An Opportunity For The Information To Behave In This Way. The Mind Provides A Special Environment In Which Information Can Become Self-organising. This Special Environment Is A Memory Surface With Special Characteristics.