Creating new words will always seem bizarre and grotesque. I created the term 'lateral thinking', which is now well accepted and is to be found in dictionaries, television sitcoms and movies (Metro, for example).

But the word 'po', which is much more important, has been slow to catch on. 'Po' signals "this is a provocation; see where your mind moves on to from this provocation". 'Po' is more important because any self-organizing system, like the brain, forms asymmetric patterns and there is an absolute need for provocation in order to cut across patterns. Provocation is an essential operation in creativity.

We eventually form new words for new things like computers and the Internet because these are visible and around us. It is very much harder to form new words first so that we can then see things in a new way.

So how can we enrich the perception ability of the human brain if it is so difficult to form new words?