Apply Edward de Bono's lateral thinking to escape dominant patterns and generate genuinely new directions. Use when the user is stuck on a problem, wants alternatives to their current approach, says 'I keep thinking about this the same way', wants to think outside the box, or needs fresh angles on any challenge — creative, strategic, technical, or personal.
Install
npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-creativity-lateral-thinkingnpx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-creativity-lateral-thinking -a claude-code -gnpx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-creativity-lateral-thinking -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity.git --path skills/s4h-creativity-lateral-thinkinggh skill install human-avatar/skills-for-humanity s4h-creativity-lateral-thinkinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity /tmp/human-avatar__skills-for-humanity
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/human-avatar__skills-for-humanity/skills/s4h-creativity-lateral-thinking ~/.claude/skills/s4h-creativity-lateral-thinking # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/human-avatar__skills-for-humanity/skills/s4h-creativity-lateral-thinking ~/.agents/skills/s4h-creativity-lateral-thinking # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode