Lateral thinking. Let the room melt.
The best thing that can happen inside your head will feel like it's falling apart. Most people go through life making sure it never does.
THE GIST ON LATERAL THINKING: "Lateral Thinking"
Why does the way you think build walls?
The way you think only knows where it's going because of where it's been. Step, follow, step, follow, step. And that's fine. It gets you home and it pays the rent.
But it also builds walls. Every step makes the next one more certain and the view a little smaller, until you're in a corridor, thinking harder and harder about less and less.
What is lateral thinking?
Lateral thinking is that corridor evaporating. Something blindsides you on an idle Tuesday and the room just melts. Everything's thrown into the air, and things that were unconnected are suddenly smashing into one another.
It's where every new thing has ever come from. Every road, every cure, every song you've loved has come from that room melting.
What does it feel like?
I know you've felt it. You feel like you're in free fall. Every part of you is awake, right on the edge of madness, and you're never more sure of anything. It's the most alive you will ever be.
Why do most people bottle it?
Then it settles, and the sensible people come around you and tell you it can't be done. That's where most people bottle it. They call it being sensible.
The ones who make things feel that same drop. They just stay a minute longer.
Which do you trust: the sensible voice or the wild idea?
Your take. One tap, then see how everyone else voted.
Quick answers
What is lateral thinking, according to Huw?
The corridor of step-by-step thinking evaporating: something blindsides you and the room melts, so unconnected things smash into one another.
Where does every new thing come from?
Huw says every road, every cure and every song you've loved came from that room melting.
What do the people who make things do differently?
They feel the same drop as everyone else. They just stay a minute longer.
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