Thinking Outside The Box

[nailit]

Is there anybody here that has ever been encouraged to think outside the box?
Despite having a plethora of views presented to then on here has it ever entered your mind to think a bit differently?

[jim360]

I guess if you want to work out what that means you might need to...

:/

(send him an email. I have literally no idea why i pretended to be "hip" or whatever.)

[Kidas]

Jim, I'd be honoured.

It's public information now, anyway

[jim360]

This is true, but it felt polite to ask first :)

[Zacs-Master]

Whoosh

[Peter Pedant]

I thought the whole point of secondary skool was to teach us to think outside the box

perhaps I mistook why I was being sent to school.

we had a big thing about discoveries like Priestley should have discovered oxygen but tried to shoe horn his results into an old theory ( phlogiston ). Lavoisier heard over dindins, about his results , went out and verified then, and came back and said "alors mes enfants j'ai decouvert oxygene."

same about Lamarck and Darwin
and Kelvin and Max Planck

Maff wasnt taught as well - an awful lot of integral calculus which I never use and very little linear algebra which I use every day

[youngmafbog]

I hate ruddy Americanisms. Having worked for American Banks I really have had my fill of them.

Two biggest hates are:

1) The elephant in the room, I saw a classic answer to this though, someone bought a toy elephant into the meeting room hidden and waited until the inevitable and produced it saying "there it is"

2) Reach Out. I fixed this in my team by having a name and shame on the whiteboard. Stopped pretty quickly.

[Garaman]

'Thinking outside the box' is just another phrase that a generation has come up with to try and make it sound like something new. There have always been creative thinkers, and some companies more open to embracing them than others.

If someone ever speaks of 'thinking out of the box' then they probably aren't real creative thinkers, as real creative thinkers just do it naturally.

[Peter Pedant]

Reach Out. I fixed this in my team by having a name and shame on the whiteboard. Stopped pretty quickly.

ans stopped them thinking pretty quickly as well huh?

[Zacs-Master]

Very good point Garaman.

[RobNorth]

Yes, but as Wolfgang says it comes anyway with age, along with becoming radical without trying...to think outside the box this is all you need
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