How to think outside the box

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Shocking truth: we live in the box. That's our normal state.

To think creatively is a necessity but is uncomfortable since it's easy to get used to the limits of the box

Here's an awesome TedEx I stumbled upon that yielded several GEMS for thinking out of the box

 
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cloudll said:
think there is no box
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You may be on to something there

Limitations usually aren't mental/intellectual... they are usually EMOTIONAL in nature

When you change your ASSUMPTIONS, your emotional limits change as well and this could lead to breakthroughs
 
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Will give it a watch

Think outside the box hmm :)
 
I don't think there is a box, at least from where I'm from. People around here tend to be just narrow minded when they're illiterate, but that change drasticaly when you're literate. You have naturally more ideas blooming in your head which don't consider no box at all.
 
Sweetrevenge said:
I don't think there is a box, at least from where I'm from. People around here tend to be just narrow minded when they're illiterate, but that change drasticaly when you're literate. You have naturally more ideas blooming in your head which don't consider no box at all.
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I wish that true across the board. Capability doesn't automatically translate to making the 'best' or 'highest' use of that capability.
Take technology: some people use it to 'waste' their time, others use it to found companies and test the limits of technical possibilities.

Indeed, it's actually quite easier to argue that people are 'dumber' now than back in the day when they had to read books to expose themselves to new ideas. Thanks to Twitter and 'half a second' exposure to new ideas on social media, the Dunning Krueger Effect and the false confidence it creates effectively prevents people from actually KNOWING stuff.
 
F*k I ended up advertising game hacks at school.
 
blackbeans said:
I wish that true across the board. Capability doesn't automatically translate to making the 'best' or 'highest' use of that capability.
Take technology: some people use it to 'waste' their time, others use it to found companies and test the limits of technical possibilities.

Indeed, it's actually quite easier to argue that people are 'dumber' now than back in the day when they had to read books to expose themselves to new ideas. Thanks to Twitter and 'half a second' exposure to new ideas on social media, the Dunning Krueger Effect and the false confidence it creates effectively prevents people from actually KNOWING stuff.
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Now, that is where things are still different here. Here, you still have to read books to gather knowledge. The main social media which is commonly used here is Facebook because the only 3 network providers here made some contract with Zuck. Even the young people and the teenagers here don't know what Twitter is. At least, that is the case as of now. So right now, there is still no box here IMO. That might change when people will start living like in the Western world I guess.
 
Belief system shapes the kind of box you're confined in.
 
I like boxes. Constraints usually make me a lot more creative, compared to if I think "I can do anything!"
That's why I really love project deadlines, they limit my options and force me to pick the best route.
 
noellarkin said:
I like boxes. Constraints usually make me a lot more creative, compared to if I think "I can do anything!"
That's why I really love project deadlines, they limit my options and force me to pick the best route.
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You mean, the simplest route, alright? Or are you a 9-5 innovator? Haven't heard of 9-5 innovators yet, but maybe there are some.
 
crnack said:
You mean, the simplest route, alright? Or are you a 9-5 innovator? Haven't heard of 9-5 innovators yet, but maybe there are some.
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Not sure what you mean by 9-5 innovator. I'm self employed, and yeah usually I've found that constraints always help me come up with better solutions, or just 'Occam's Razor' my way to quickly get the desired outcome.
 
noellarkin said:
Not sure what you mean by 9-5 innovator. I'm self employed, and yeah usually I've found that constraints always help me come up with better solutions, or just 'Occam's Razor' my way to quickly get the desired outcome.
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Well. If you remove all constraints, you'll probably stop caring about anything.
Removing too many constraints makes you produce nonsense.
Removing 0 constraints makes you feel like you are working 24 hours, including your sleep.

At this point I don't know what a constraint is.

I found that if constraints are like "I need to get food on plate", I won't get very creative.
But when my constraints are like "I need to make a superb product", then it goes nonstop and new ideas are here quickly.
 
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