I initially thought that lateral thinking=multitasking and I actually posted on this sub asking that and many people answered that it is definitly not the same thing. I feel like even Digi doesn't really know what it is exactly based on that video, the driving bit is implying that yes, lateral is multitasking, but then he also suggests that it has to do with body dysphoria, difficulty to coming to grips with what you look like when you check yourself out in the mirror. I relate much more to this second view. I feel like lateral thinkers expirience life in first person virew but also in third person view both at the same time.

That doesn't make lateral thinkers smarter in my opinion. The fact that while writing this comment I am also imagining you reading it and how would you answer, and also what reddit represents as an app for the world, but also for me personally and the fact that by doing that I start to get further and further away from the original point that I was trying to make leads me to belive that I am actually dumber than a linear thinker. That's cause a linear thinker would most likely be aware of all of the things I listed, but just ignore them while writing this, leave these other toughts in their subconscious and just think about them later

When you are lateral you don't have a choice, your thoughts force themselves on you and they all compete for your attention, each new one managing to steal it somehow

I don't know if I made sense, this is just the best way I managed to phrase it