Injustice and Unfairness

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you're fair, is like asking a lion not to eat you because you don't eat lions. It has taken me three decades to understand what the world is all about….a place of injustice and unfairness. 
 I have come to reconcile with the fact that Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win.
But the most important is to take the lesson to the future

COLLATERAL THINKING

Collateral thinking is the ability to think laterally while concomitantly respecting traditional thinking and having regard for conventional wisdom. Most of the world’s population has been brought up to think conventionally. A few are lateral thinkers and a little less are collateral thinkers.I am a proponent of collateral thinking!.

Lateral thinking is a prerequisite to innovation and a condition sine qua non to invention but usually encounters fierce impedance at the start/ during the course, almost so that most of the times, the ideas of lateral thinkers hardly ever go beyond the neurons  that conceived them to  come to light. This is because as one of my teachers used to tell me:

Deviate from tradition, Say something new…. and no one will like to listen to you! Try to convince anyone to accept and you will just be hated….even if everyone knows deep in the sub-consciously mind that you are right! This is human nature! Don’t or never force anyone to abide to your idea, convince him /her to look at his/her own ideas from a different angle—your angle of vision…this is collateral thinking!

Lateral thinkers are idea developers endowed with the ability not only to see at a distance but also to see rightly whereas collateral thinking is the mindset needed to take the idea everywhere.Collateral thinkers  are clairvoyant visionaries ; they are fighters not affected by controversy and  with a positive mindset commendable to be trusted. They believe adversity happens for them not to them and explore and exploit every situation they find themselves positively. They have the ability to change negativity into positivity.

Conventional thinkers simply respect and follow the rules!

Collateral thinking is thus a subtle way of incorporating and blending “lateral thinking-” into “traditional ways (the usual)” without causing friction between schools of thought. Everyone stays within his comfort zone, considers his/her idea as contributive but sub-consciously accepting the new way! Esene 06-06-2014

To which group do you belong? Traditional, Collateral or Lateral?