Lateral Literacy

Lateral literacy is also known as lateral multidirectional thinking. This literacy involves discarding the obvious, leaving behind traditional modes of thoughts, and enabling individuals or group of people to think creatively, generating ton of ideas, or "outside the box". It became very important in the business world because it allowed people to use inspiration and imagination to solve problems by looking at them from unexpected perspectives.

The challenge for this example is to connect the 9 dots using four straight lines or less, without lifting the pen or pencil from the page.

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