Edward De Bono invented what he called "Lateral Thinking." He established a school in New York. He called it, "The Edward De Bono School of Thinking," and started giving seminars on how to think laterally. He also established a school in England. He gave it the more appropriately British title, "The Cognitive Research Trust," but it did the same thing. It taught people how to think laterally.

He explains what he means by "lateral thinking" from an experience when he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. One night while he was there he attended a party in London and got back late to Oxford after the gates had closed. He had to climb two walls to get to his room. He said, "I got over the first wall without too much difficulty. I came to the second wall and noticed it was exactly the same height a…