What exaclty is out of the box thinking?
Who defines that a particular thought is indeed out of box? and
How exactly do we teach some one how to think out of box?
I have been thinking about this for some time now and honestly, it is difficult to explian. We can read so much about this thinking pattern, but the question is can you teach how to think out of Box, if you can teach some one then will that be a out of box really?
Let's see how does one defines out of Box thinking!!!
Out of Box thinking is some thing which is diferrent from normal way of thinking, the way most people would think in a normal circumstances-- or we may call it "inside the box thinking".
If some how we can think from a new perspective, than we would normally think, then that could qualify as out of Box....
Out of Box thinking in that case would require someone to have some attributes or chareteristics like
- Willingness to see new perspectives while working on a day-to-day work.
- Openness to do things in a different way
- Looking inside before looking outsideOpeness to suggestion no matter from where it comes
- Ready to explore and make mistakes
- Acting on the thoughts or idea that one feels is out of box.
Having defined " Out of Box thinking",
the next question that comes to my mind can we really inculcate the habit of out of box thinking among people and in general among kids.
I was reading an article on WSJ that says Finish kids are most intelligent in the world atleast in the parameters they were tested, the question that i asked was it any way due to out of Box thinking abilities, well I do not know that.
One thing is for sure if we need to excel in life no matter what work we do. we need to move away from normal way , we need to create a niche, we need to create a value for ourselves, we need abilities to think differently, we would call that " Out of Box"
