A Lateral Thinking Tool For Making It 10-Times Bigger

Our goal, with this essay, is sharing.

Sharing what?

A rather peculiar lateral thinking tool.

A Simple Question

Our lateral thinking tool is centered on a question.

To ask this question, you must take something.

Anything.

Just as an example, you can take an essay.

You can take this essay and, then, ask the following question: how can I make this ten times better?

Come up with ten ideas that answer this question.

It doesn’t matter what these ideas are. Or, for that matter, if they actually answer the question properly.

Just write them down.

If you do this, you will have used our lateral thinking tool.

But, of course, there’s more.

A lot more.

The Infinite Question

The question of “How can I make this ten times better?” is quite nice.

But, in some ways, it is rather boring.

Or, at least, it is boring, to me.

A more interesting question, to me, is “How can I make this ten times more ambitious?”

Or, “How can I make this ten times bigger?”

Yet another question that interests me is as follows: how can I make this infinitely more vast than it is; ad infinitum?

And so on and so forth, endlessly and infinitely; ad infinitum.

All of this guides me to our next point: this particular question format, as it were, is an infinite network of ideas.

You can ask an infinite range of exciting questions that fall into this format.

Every single one can facilitate some form of lateral thinking.

Just as an example, asking how you can make something bigger will, inevitably, lead to all sorts of new possibilities that may be very intriguing to you.

You can find three examples, of this lateral thinking tool in action, right within the section below.

3 Examples

Our first example is rooted in my book “Visions Of Infinity.” And, the question we are asking is as follows: how can I make a sequel that is ten times more ambitious?

The ideas we came up with, as a result of asking this question, can be found right below:

1. I can develop 250 visions of infinity, as opposed to the 25 we developed.
2. I can develop a ritual that allows us to access higher visions of infinity beyond all of our known limits and conceptions, which we will include in the book.
3. I can include visions of infinity that are ten times more infinite than those we developed.

Some of these ideas are peculiar. But, they lead to some good ideas.

Our second example is rooted in my Medium blog: how can I make this Medium blog ten times as vast and big and expansive as it currently is? And, the answers, to this, can be found right below:

1. I can write 5,000 essays — I’m currently at a little over 500 published essays.
2. I can focus more on topics that relate to transcendence, infinity, and going beyond all of our known limits and assumptions; and so on and so forth.
3. I can take the essays I love and turn them into, say, thirty variants, on the same topic, each one useful.

All of these ideas interest me.

Our third, and final, example, is rooted in the following idea: how can I make my life ten times better than it currently is? You can find the ideas this question led to right below:

1. I can earn ten times the amount of money I am currently earning.
2. I can engage in practices that allow me to have more energy, wake up earlier, and feel more joyous, in the flow, and happy, throughout the day.
3. I can find what I love and do it ten times as often.

Every single one of these is quite interesting to me. And, I may turn one of these into an essay.

Conclusion

Just to wrap this up, thank you for reading!

My hope is that this lateral thinking tool is useful to you.

No matter what, though, have a great day!