“In practice, backwards thinking is however more concerned with explaining an effect whereas forward thinking is more concerned with bringing about an effect.” (p.93), I think in this scenario, both of these ways of thinking are equally crucial to the innovative side of your brain when it comes to coming up with new ideas, i think it is both crucial to move forward, but also understand how you even got this far. When you are stuck, you go backwards in order to understand how you got stuck where you are now and be able to keep moving foward with your innovations.
“Being effective means being right only at the end” (p.95) When brainstorming and coming up with new ideas, the author suggests that using lateral thinking throughout the process is crucial and that at the end we use our vertical thinking and make sure that what we suggested works and is doable.
I think the author in these chapters wants us to understand the importance of innovation (what is it consisted of) and encourage us to not judge ourselves nor our ideas when we are becoming creative but instead build on them, and see what could be achieved based on what was thought. Despite him agreeing that one would need to judge the end of their project, he heavily discourages us to start rationalizing and treating our creativity like we are in classroom where we are constantly expected to say the correct thing or correct answer, because in creativity, there are no correct answers as long as the final product is achievable or at least, attempted.