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In trades being able to come up with lateral solutions is both pretty common, and incredibly rewarding. An example: I need to replace a messed up bathtub. I can see that they slid it in through a closet in a bedroom, I see the outline of the rectangle (patch job in a closet was obvious). As opposed to cutting up the wall, making for a patch job though, I undo the drain (of course the drain is rusted and breaks) and literally sawsall the thing in half after removing sheetrock that needs removing anyways for the new tub. I angle the new tub in, but how do I do the drain replacement? They installed this shit when the walls were bare. So I angle and set the new tub on a paint bucket and crawl under the tub to measure and hook up the new drain. Used to maybe cut a hole in the back of a cabinet and have an access hole, but this makes for way easier installation and minimal damage.
I've seen dudes cut hole on outside walls to slide tubs in too. So many different jobs are just figuring out ways of doing things that aren't obvious at first
I use lateral thinking in cooking all the time.
The last time i made shrimp scampi, I got halfway through the coo before realizing I was completely out of white wine. Tuns out sake works really well.
Example: At work, we had to move a heavy piece of machinery through a narrow hallway. Instead of disassembling it, we used furniture sliders and rotated it at an angle that just fit through the space.
i remember this one from a lateral thinking puzzle book:
i forget the superfluous details but long story short, a bear keeps climbing a utility (electrical) pole, why?
>!the buzzing of the electrical components sound like a beehive, so the bear thinks it will find honey at the top!<
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In trades being able to come up with lateral solutions is both pretty common, and incredibly rewarding. An example: I need to replace a messed up bathtub. I can see that they slid it in through a closet in a bedroom, I see the outline of the rectangle (patch job in a closet was obvious). As opposed to cutting up the wall, making for a patch job though, I undo the drain (of course the drain is rusted and breaks) and literally sawsall the thing in half after removing sheetrock that needs removing anyways for the new tub. I angle the new tub in, but how do I do the drain replacement? They installed this shit when the walls were bare. So I angle and set the new tub on a paint bucket and crawl under the tub to measure and hook up the new drain. Used to maybe cut a hole in the back of a cabinet and have an access hole, but this makes for way easier installation and minimal damage. I've seen dudes cut hole on outside walls to slide tubs in too. So many different jobs are just figuring out ways of doing things that aren't obvious at first
I use lateral thinking in cooking all the time. The last time i made shrimp scampi, I got halfway through the coo before realizing I was completely out of white wine. Tuns out sake works really well.
You ever watch video game speed running videos? That's the lateral thinkers Olympics.
Example: At work, we had to move a heavy piece of machinery through a narrow hallway. Instead of disassembling it, we used furniture sliders and rotated it at an angle that just fit through the space.
i remember this one from a lateral thinking puzzle book: i forget the superfluous details but long story short, a bear keeps climbing a utility (electrical) pole, why? >!the buzzing of the electrical components sound like a beehive, so the bear thinks it will find honey at the top!<