<ul><li>Create new questions or approaches.</li><li>Invite different groups. </li><li>Conduct a different type of meeting to break through the “group think”.</li><li>Change the venue, add music and invite different and fresh perspectives. </li><li>Find ways of tapping into the right brain of the participants.</li></ul>

Stimulating Outside The Box Thinking

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.

The Brain And The “Box”

How do you think outside the "think outside the box" box? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by William Alan Donius, Author, Thought Revolution-Ideation + Innovation Facilitator, on Quora: Most business people operate inside the proverbial "box" most of the time.

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