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Jumping Out Of The System

  • Jootsing or “Jumping Out Of The System” is a technique to encourage creativity in science, philosophy, and the arts.
  • All systems have rules. With jootsing, a system’s rules can be used as a starting point to work against.
  • The term was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature.

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Daniel Dennett

“It helps to know the tradition if you want to subvert it. That’s why so few dabblers or novices succeed in coming up with anything truly creative.”

DANIEL DENNETT

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Jumping Out Of A System Requires Understanding The System

  • Jootsing means studying the rules of the system before you can break them.
  • Jootsing is a much more extreme version of thinking outside the box. Jootsing forces us to completely break away from the box, to create within a space that breaks the fundamental characteristics of the box.
  • But jootsing is not about breaking the rules for the sake of breaking the rules.

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Some Examples Of Jootsing

  • “You need water to use shampoo” → Dry shampoo
  • “You need a license to drive a taxi” → Uber
  • “You need alcohol to make cocktails” → Mocktails.

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Jootsing Consists Of Three Steps

Jootsing Consists Of Three Steps

  • Study the system. Read all the fundamental books, articles, and research papers that explore your system of interest. Contact experts, ask questions, become familiar with relevant policies. 
  • Understand the rules. While you study the system, make sure to take notes as to what rules are commonly considered as unbreakable. 
  • Jump out of the system. Take the rules one by one, and think of ways to break each of them.

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