Of thinking hats and thought revolutions

Abstract

He originally qualified in medicine and proceeded to work clinically as well as follow up on research about the interaction of different systems, applying the principles of medicine to those of neurology. His findings ultimately gave rise to the rules of lateral thinking. As early as 1969 just as few years after becoming a doctor, his book 'Mechanism of Mind' caught the attention of the American Nobel prize winner Professor Murray Gell-Mann, a physicist who worked on a theory of elementary particles, and whose name became synonymous with the quark.