Our brain constantly uses boxes to make it possible for us to cope with and process reality. Boxes can include, approaches, ideas, processes, philosophies, tactics, things, patterns, strategies and theories.
All of these various boxes help us make the world more manageable, and as human beings, this is just the way our minds are wired. When the world confronts us with an infinite assortment of objects, people, or ideas, we use our patterns, boxes and systems to simplify them, and to organize and categorize them.
To be more creative and to survive in a world of accelerating change and challenge, we must do more than simply think outside the box, we must learn to "think beyond the box", or beyond our mental models. Mental models can both guide us and set us free. Or they can choke our creativity and trap us in rigid assumptions and well worn-paths of action.
Learning how to "think beyond the box" is a creative way to examine both business and personal roadblocks to discover and create innovative solutions... it's where the magic happens.
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
~ Edward de Bono
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