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Everyone Tells You To Think Outside The Box. Here's How To Actually Do It
The Brain And The “Box”
As we age, our brains become increasingly more ingrained into familiar patterns and routines.
Our acquired patterns and routines virtually confine us to our thinking to "the box", or more precisely, to a more left-hemisphere dominant style of handling information. But learning to tap into the more creative right hemisphere of the brain can generate new insights, enabling you to think in a unique manner about both the problems and opportunities.
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The Brain And The “Box”
As we age, our brains become increasingly more ingrained into familiar patterns and routines.
Our acquired patterns and routines virtually confine us to our thinking to "the box", or more precisely, to a more left-hemisphere dominant style of handling information. But learning to tap into the more creative right hemisphere of the brain can generate new insights, enabling you to think in a unique manner about both the problems and opportunities.
Stimulating Outside The Box Thinking
- Create new questions or approaches.
- Invite different groups.
- Conduct a different type of meeting to break through the “group think”.
- Change the venue, add music and invite different and fresh perspectives.
- Find ways of tapping into the right brain of the participants.
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Widen Your Perspective
Breakthrough thinking and creativity often come from making unusual connections.
Oscillate between seemingly unrelated topics, concepts, or issues to find the connection that makes an idea to move "outside the box. " Don't discount anything as unrelated or unconnected.
Question The Status Quo Regularly
Challenge conventional wisdom and make nonconformity the expected conversation. Ask "Why? " "How might we. .. ?" and "What if. .. ?" to come up with new ideas.
Ask your team to imagine they are the competitors and to plan an attack on your vulnerable spots. This challenges the strategic status quo and identifies new issues from a different perspective.
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Stay Adaptable
Careers and markets change over time, and you’ll need to be able to change in kind to remain relevant.
Thinking outside the box will help you stay adaptable. Your mind won’t be closed ...
Gain Flexibility
If you view things as unchangeable, then nothing can change for the better. By thinking outside the box and questioning the status quo, you’ll constantly be considering how you could improve something.
Greater Perspective
Thinking outside the box can expand your worldview, allowing you to have a greater perspective on the events in your life. When you’re willing to consider alternative ways and points of view, you can find more potential solutions.
A greater perspective can make you more receptive to different ideas, which means that you won’t be limited by a small worldview.
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