I would like to say this reading was kind of all over the place. Some advanced thinking mechanisms were discussed but I will explain how I “dumbed it down” in my mind :).
I started thinking differently about the mind, the brain, kind of like a program with thousands of lines of code. Among these lines we have functions which represent some patterns in our lives. Now what I found the problem to be in these is that the variables of these functions were mostly stored locally. That contributes to us thinking more vertically than to think laterally. The quick fix? Global variables 🙂 Sounds simple right? Well, not really. Storing some values globally will gives us more opportunities to be creative, but we will have to make this functions (patterns) ourselves. We also need to salvage existing functions (patterns) and create new ones, as much as we can.
This is how I understood this reading, instead of just thinking vertically and just saying what the reading is about, I decided to dissect it and connect it to programming, and this actually made me break it down and swallow it much easier.