A+ R A-  "Out-of-the-Box" Creativity  E-mail Print PDF  Share
this article with a friend  Rather than being about a
competition (e.g. my opinion vs. yours), learning is an openness
for understanding before concluding or judging. Regularly, I
mentally wrestle with a messy complex problem and upon
understanding its truths the whole solution is simple. Confusion
happens in the world because of faulty inside-the-box
information. By stepping "outside-the-box" the "big picture"
perspective allows me to separate the false/true, the non-
pertinent/pertinent, and the important/necessary. Though this
includes "in-the-box" (ordinary) thinking, Critical Thinking
emphasizes "out-of-the-box" thinking about what cannot be
"normally" defined because of a lack of boundaries and about
realms beyond ones imagination. Yet, perhaps like me, most
people have never been presented with ways of how such Awareness
can be put in order. The most common method is by means of the
tool of Language. The fact that a single thought can often b