Status Updates From Elastic: Flexible Thinking ...

In the introduction, Mlodinow explains the three types of thought: scripted, analytical, and the third which he coins 'elastic thinking.' Using a few recent examples (such as Niantic's "Pokémon Go" and modes of travel such as bicycling or hoverboarding), Mlodinow explains that a unique "bottom up" way of thinking allows humans to grant reality to possibilities outside the linear expectation of analytical thought.