The term lateral thinking was coined by Edward de Bono in his work “The Use of Lateral Thinking” published in 1967. Edward de Bono has taught at the universities of Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford. He is regarded as a highly influential thinker and an authority in the teaching of thinking as a skill. According to de Bono, a healthy human brain does not want to always be creative, it is designed to figure out how to do things or how to think about things and then ‘locks’ that automatic response or behavior into a subconscious process so that your conscious brain can focus on other matters. Lateral Thinking Lateral thinking is a process in which