Chapter Ten: Alice's Final Examination (Janusian Creativity)
Through The Looking-Glass EXPLAINED
In her final encounter with royalty, Alice finally smartens up.
After watching the Lion and the Unicorn battle for the Red King's Crown - something they can never have - Alice crosses the eighth and final square and a golden crown suddenly appears on her head.
In Chess Terms
She's done it: Alice has gone from a White Pawn to a White Queen by travelling across the Looking-Glass chessboard without being captured even though she's been in the presence of her 'enemies' the entire time. Unfortunately, becoming a Queen doesn't mean that the fellow Queens are going to start treating her kindly. In fact, the opposite happens. The Red Queen and the White Queen are not done examining Alice. Alice, now a Queen herself, makes many mistakes in her final conversation with the Queens on her way to victory.
Janusian Creativity
Although the Queens seem to be treating Alice harshly, they're actually testing her knowledge of the physics of the Looking-Glass country. Alice finally figures out that things work completely backwards to her own intuition, but her words leave her lips before she has the chance to correct herself. By the time the Queens' examination is complete, they are fast asleep, leaving Alice as the only conscious Queen.
While Janusian Thinking is the cognitive technique at the root of most of the Nobel-Prize Winning Inventions, there is another, rival mechanism of Creativity at work.
Koestler's Chess board
All acts of creation are produced by the sudden bisociation of previous matrices of related experiences. - Arthur Koestler
Through The Looking-Glass EXPLAINED uncovers the hidden algorithms that underlie Lewis Carroll’s greatest work. Along the way, you’ll learn how you can go from a Pawn to a Queen, just like Alice does.