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Thinking Outside the Box is a popular metaphor meaning …. to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective. This phrase often refers to novel or creative thinking. It was made popular in the 1970s by management consultants and business coaches.
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Thinking ‘inside the box’ is to continue to do the same thing as has always been done while hoping for a better result, somehow. While thinking ‘outside the box’ is rejecting the established paradigm and creating a new dynamic approach to challenges.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again,
but expecting a different result.”
Albert Einstein
I recently had a young Indian man come to see me so he could move beyond some unresolved issues, which were holding him back. A few years ago, he had started a business, but it failed. (Nothing unusual in that. Perhaps half of all new businesses fail within the first 2 years)
As he prepares to launch his new start-up business his family and friends have suggested he simply invest his money and take life easy. Yet that is not his passion or intent. He has the driving ambition to use his past experiences as learning experiences.
He has studied his potential business competition and found they are all struggling against each other in a crowded corporate marketplace. They all charge high fees for a high-quality custom designed product.
I showed him the marketing illustration below. The horizontal axis represents the Quality of the product, increasing from left to right. The vertical axis represents the Price per unit increasing from bottom to top. The competition are fighting each other in the yellow quadrant (upper right). This quadrant represents Highest Quality and Highest price per unit.
Below that is the Highest Quality with Lowest Price quadrant (bottom right) – which is uneconomical and unsustainable.
To the left of the yellow is the Highest Price and Lowest Quality quadrant (top left), which is highly profitable but unsustainable in the longer term as customers realize they are being overcharged.
The bottom right quadrant is the Lowest Price and Lowest Quality quadrant (Walmart corner).
He will create his product somewhere in the middle ground, aiming for the small businesses run by families, shown in red.
I suggested he could create bronze, silver and gold packages, increasing in features and price within the red zone. These may be standard products which can be adapted to client needs quickly. In this way small business can opt for the level they can afford, want and need.
This is an example of outside the box thinking. He can avoid the crowded quadrant which would be difficult for start ups to get a foothold in the market.
The synonyms for thinking outside the box include; ingenuity & originality & inventiveness & cleverness & genius & flair & skill & resourcefulness& sharpness & shrewdness & creativity & enterprise & imagination & ingeniousness & innovation & adroitness & artistry & faculty & finesse & gift & insight & inspiration & intuition & knack & perception & perceptiveness & acumen & astuteness & brilliance & creativeness & imaginativeness & innovativeness & intelligence & invention & mastery & sharp-wittedness & talent & ability & brains & brightness & cunning & dexterity & gumption,&initiative & quickness & quick-wittedness & smartness & sophistication & wisdom & cleverness & smartness & discernment & ingenuity & insight & perspicacity & sagacity & wisdom & acuity & astuteness & awareness & perception & perspicuity & sharpness & shrewdness & understanding & wit & brightness & judgement & judgment & sharp-wittedness & canniness & intelligence &intuition &keenness & penetration & sense & smarts & brains & capability & enterprise & flair & initiative & intuitiveness &resourcefulness & vision & acuteness & cageyness & caginess & clear-sightedness & common sense & foxiness & gumption & hardheadedness & know-how, & knowingness, & nous & savvy & arguteness & brilliance & common & comprehension & cunning & discrimination & expertise & farsightedness & grasp & guile & intellect & percipience & refinement & sapience & sensitivity & grey matter & horse sense & savoir faire & good taste & powers of reasoning
“The notion of something outside a ‘box’ is related to a traditional topographical puzzle called the nine dots puzzle.
The phrase ‘outside the box’ was popularized in part by a nine-dot puzzle, which John Adair claims to have introduced in 1969. Management consultant Mike Vance has claimed that the use of the nine-dot puzzle in consultancy circles stems from the corporate culture of the Walt Disney Company, where the puzzle was used in-house.
The phrase ‘thinking outside the box’ is a restatement of the solution strategy. The puzzle only seems difficult because people commonly imagine a boundary around the edge of the dot array. The heart of the matter is the unspecified barrier that people typically perceive,” according to Wikipedia.
“You can’t do that!”
“Why not? There are no rules, no boundaries. I did it and it worked!”
He or she who thinks ‘outside the box‘ wins.
He or she who has the most mental flexibility wins every time.
The mathematical system of Cartesian Coordinates was created by René Descartes. It revolutionized mathematics by providing a systematic link between Euclidean geometry and algebra.
Neuro-Linguistic Programing NLP has borrowed the Cartesian Co-Ordinates from mathematics and used it as a way to think ‘outside the box’.
NLP Cartesian Co-Ordinates are great for critical thinking and considering the alternatives around a business decision or goal!
They are great for creating solution based thinking instead of starring at the problem with glazed over eyes muttering “I got nothing”
Instead you can find new perspectives, new alternatives.
A statement such as “I would not do that” could be a way of thinking inside the box. It could be limited thinking which is going no where. We could challenge that statement by asking “Well, why not?” We could drill down further by asking in response to the answer, ‘Why not?” until the thinker reaches the point of ‘void’ – outside the box.
Or we could use the NLP Cartesian Co-Ordinate questions.
By conversing and inverting and reversing our thinking as in NLP Cartesian Co-Ordinates we can come up with whole new ways at challenging that thinking, and therefore find new ways to approach and overcome problems with solution thinking.
Answering these questions forces one to think ‘outside the box’ because answering all of these questions will more often than not throw the thinker into confusion, or a blank void. But that is a good thing because as the thinker comes out the other side they will have found new resources.
Here is an example:
- Statement : “What would your leadership look like?”
- Converse : “What would not happen if you did lead?”
- Inverse : “And when you are not leading, what would happen?”
- Non-mirror Image Reverse : “Have you ever seen others not leading? What did that look like when they didn’t lead?”
Try it for yourself right now. Think of the challenge you have been facing and want answers to. Then answer the question from the perspective of each quadrant.
Do not be surprised if you have to ask yourself the question over and over several times as your mind pushes up against the edges of it’s box boundaries. It may try to resist, or it may ‘spin out’ in a state of confusion.
If you get an answer that makes no sense that is also a good thing because it is moving the mind out of stuckness. (Is that a real word? There you go … you’re in the void) Void is a good place to be. It is a state of ‘blank’ ‘nothingness’ or meditation and great things can happen there.
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Our thinking is defined by, and to some extent limited by our language. For example. Inuit (Eskimos) have around 50 words for ‘snow.’ The Swedish have about 25 and the Scots 420! Where I grew up there is no snow so I guess we had only one word – ‘snow’. The Scots have words such as ‘feefle‘ which means ‘snow blowing from around a corner,’ which is distinct from ‘blin’, which is drifting snow. I had no concept of such a thing. I was totally ‘blank’ about such things. As an adult I moved to live near the snow and actually worked in that environment for 4 years, which was enough for me. So, I was no longer ‘blank’ about snow! I had concepts of fresh powder snow, old icy snow, snow drifts, blowing snow, deep snow, crunchy snow as you walk on it, heavy frost almost like snow. These words conger up memories and emotions – they have meaning for me now. But as a boy I had no concept.
The example of Cartesian Co-Ordinates above is another example of language giving meaning to concepts.
‘Welcome’ Subliminal Affirmations Subliminal affirmations are an original way to overcome life’s challenges. They are ‘thinking outside the box’ to solve a challenge.
Welcome Thinking Outside the Box: Subliminal Affirmations:
Just like Homer Simpson, we all have intrusive thoughts from time-to-time. If we choose to listen to them and tag them with emotion, they become more powerful. When we add self-talk – they can grab control by becoming deep unconscious beliefs. These beliefs drive our behaviors. We call automatic behaviors – habits.
So which thoughts do you choose to listen too? The ‘good’? Or, the ‘bad’?
We tend to listen to and follow our established habits of thinking and action. But they are just automatic behaviors, which are not necessarily the right way to deal with a challenge. Sometimes we need to ‘think outside the box’, by using an original approach to the challenge.
Remember, Albert Einstein said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result.”
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The ‘Welcome’ subliminal affirmations are a resource that delivers targeted messages to your deep unconscious up to 1200 times in a day. That’s powerful enough to change deep unconscious thinking, beliefs and behaviors!
The more the Welcome Thinking ‘Outside the Box’ messages are repeated over and over, the more they are uncritically accepted by the deep unconscious. If you listen to the Welcome Thinking ‘Outside the Box’ MP3 while sleeping, on ‘repeat’ or ‘loop’ your unconscious mind will hear this message almost 400 times every night. You could listen to the ‘Theta Binaural waves’ or ‘Environmental – Lake waves’ MP3 while sleeping. Or, you could choose to also listen to the ‘Pleasant piano and guitar melody’ and/or the ‘Zumba’ – Latin style dance music during the day. Your deep unconscious would then hear the affirmations repeated around 800 – 1200 times, while your logical conscious mind would hear it around 60 – 90 times, which is not enough to become bored or annoyed by it. That’s powerful because a message repeated enough will become a new unconscious belief.
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Hipno Hop Rap Text: Outside the Box Thinking
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There is one simple thing you can do right now to change your thinking. Download and listen to the Welcome Thinking ‘Outside the Box’ MP3 now. This MP3 is designed to not only overcome the negative self-talk, but the self-limiting beliefs and behaviors too.
Welcome Thinking Outside the Box Subliminal Affirmation Text: Thinking Outside the Box
“You know, people who think ‘inside the box’ are stuck in old ways of thinking.
You enjoy solving challenges and puzzles by thinking ‘outside the box’, with unique ideas.
Your creative mind finds new and innovative ways to overcome encounters and trials. You are original, and you connect previously unrelated concepts to create new.
You might not have noticed you are now more clear in the mind, and more relaxed in the body. You are coping better with everything and everybody. You are more confident. You have greater self control. . You way you feel is getting better and better because the burdens have been lifted forever and ever now that you welcome thinking ‘outside the box’.”
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