How to Think Outside The Box
Thursday, June 21, 2012
1. Put God first
We are s human have
to realize that we are so limited. It's hard to mastering everything and look
in right view everytime. That's why we have to surrender our problem to
God. Put God first is very smart solution to make us think outside the box. For
illustration, we are trapped in traffic jam . We are seeing our surrounding is
very crowded and we can't move anywhere. Seeing that situation, we can be
frustrated and angry. But the other people from helicopter can see that there's
an accident that caused the traffic jam. And police is trying to handle it,and
it will take no long time. After everything are handled,the traffic will become
normal. It shows how us need God. We can ask for information or advice to the
man in helicopter for the thing we have to do and must not do.
2. Study another
industry.
I’ve
learned as much about teaching from learning about marketing as I have from
studying pedagogy – maybe more. Go to the library and pick up a trade magazine
in an industry other than your own, or grab a few books from the library, and
learn about how things are done in other industries. You might find that many
of the problems people in other industries face are similar to the problems in
your own, but that they’ve developed really quite different ways of dealing
with them. Or you might well find new linkages between your own industry and
the new one, linkages that might well be the basis of innovative partnerships
in the future.
3.
Take a class.
Learning
a new topic will not only teach you a new set of facts and figures, it will
teach you a new way of looking at and making sense of aspects of your everyday
life or of the society or natural world you live in. This in turn will help
expand both how you look at problems and the breadth of possible solutions you
can come up with.
4. Read a novel in an
unfamiliar genre.
Reading
is one of the great mental stimulators in our society, but it’s easy to get
into a rut. Try reading something you’d never have touched otherwise – if you
read literary fiction, try a mystery or science fiction novel; if you read a
lot of hard-boiled detective novels, try a romance; and so on. Pay attention
not only to the story but to the particular problems the author has to deal
with. For instance, how does the fantasy author bypass your normal skepticism
about magic and pull you into their story? Try to connect those problems to
problems you face in your own field. For example, how might your marketing team
overcome your audiences normal reticence about a new “miracle” product?
5. Write a poem.
While
most problem-solving leans heavily on our brain’s logical centers, poetry
neatly bridges our more rational left-brain though processes and our more
creative right-brain processes. Though it may feel foolish (and getting
comfortable with feeling foolish might be another way to think outside the
box), try writing a poem about the problem you’re working on. Your poem doesn’t
necessarily have to propose a solution – the idea is to shift your thinking
away from your brain’s logic centers and into a more creative part of the
brain, where it can be mulled over in a non-rational way. Remember, nobody has
to ever see your poem…
6. Draw a picture.
Drawing
a picture is even more right-brained, and can help break your logical
left-brain’s hold on a problem the same way a poem can. Also, visualizing a
problem engages other modes of thinking that we don’t normally use, bringing
you another creative boost.
7. Turn it upside
down.
Turning
something upside-down, whether physically by flipping a piece of paper around
or metaphorically by re-imagining it can help you see patterns that wouldn’t
otherwise be apparent. The brain has a bunch of pattern-making habits that
often obscure other, more subtle patterns at work; changing the orientation of
things can hide the more obvious patterns and make other patterns emerge. For
example, you might ask what a problem would look like if the least important
outcome were the most important, and how you’d then try to solve it.
8. Work backwards.
Just
like turning a thing upside down, working backwards breaks the brain’s normal
conception of causality. This is the key to backwards planning, for example,
where you start with a goal and think back through the steps needed to reach it
until you get to where you are right now.
9. Ask a child for
advice.
I
don’t buy into the notion that children are inherently ore creative before
society “ruins” them, but I do know that children think and speak with a n
ignorance of convention that is often helpful. Ask a child how they might
tackle a problem, or if you don’t have a child around think about how you might
reformulate a problem so that a child could understand
it if one was available. Don’t run out and build a boat made out of cookies
because a child told you to, though – the idea isn’t to do what the child says,
necessarily, but to jog your own thinking into a more unconventional path.
10. Invite
randomness.
If
you’ve ever seen video of Jackson Pollock painting ,
you have seen a masterful painter consciously inviting randomness into his
work. Pollock exercises a great deal of control over his brushes and paddles,
in the service of capturing the stray drips and splashes of paint that make up
his work. Embracing mistakes and incorporating them into your projects,
developing strategies that allow for random input, working amid chaotic
juxtapositions of sound and form – all of these can help to move beyond
everyday patterns of thinking into the sublime.
11. Take a shower.
There’s
some kind of weird psychic link between showering and creativity .
Who knows why? Maybe it’s because your mind is on other things, maybe it’s
because you’re naked, maybe it’s the warm water relaxing you – it’s a mystery.
But a lot of people swear by it. So maybe when the status quo response to some
circumstance just isn’t working, try taking a shower and see if something
remarkable doesn’t occur to you!
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