We need you to overcome a prolonged period of congressional paralysis and polarization in order to address the country s malaise. We need you to pivot in your responses from the tactical to the strategic, from the cyclical to the secular, from the partial to the comprehensive, and from sequential to simultaneous reforms.

Block Thinking

Ataturk was a lateral thinker.

Labyrinth Mind mapping

Mind mapping software

Create mind maps

So it s a leap of imagination.

VYM View Your Mind

I could work them just by my thoughts.

Maintain rational thought.

So the same idea again.

He just doesn't seem to think very fast.

Map your mind

See, you have a mental model.

We own our minds.

Europe s Economic Groupthink

Smarter Thinking on Climate Change

Good intelligence from shore, so that you know what to expect when you see it.

The Americans have this new theory about cholesterol...

So in some ways, we think that this baby's thinking is like the thinking of the most brilliant scientists.

And yet people are interestingly resistant to the idea of applying evolutionary thinking to thinking to our thinking.

This is the Library of Human Imagination.

Learning physics can change your way of thinking.

I'm a slow thinker, though.

You think fast, don't you, sweetheart?

Elvira, what's the meaning of this?

Oh, that's your idea of logic, huh?

A free mind mapping tool

So why design thinking?

But metaphor is a way of thought before it is a way with words.

In the glass panels all along is sort of the history of imagination.

But that's the way her mind works.

Of course you did, Willemien.

Maybe it's his ability to have causal thought.

So, think of the mental model that goes behind reducing the intake.

Really think outside the box.

It's called thought controlled computing.

You don't even think the same.

I'm not able to follow. Are you Higgins?

Have you given up thinking about Geneviève?

So these are just some of the kind of basic ideas around design thinking and some of the new kinds of projects that they're being applied to.

Why can't an equivalent case be made for nature?

Okay, number two Go to the wilderness.

What TED celebrates is the gift of the human imagination.

Paola Antonelli previews Design and the Elastic Mind