How often do you THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX?

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Simple question... now often do you think outside the box?

Or, do you always follow the standard thinking?

Feel free to give us some examples in an opinion.

Here's an example...

When asked "How much is ONE PLUS ONE?"

A standard thinker would say TWO,

While someone who thinks outside the box might say ELEVEN, that is "11"

robhazelnut · Accepted Answer

Basically I strive to see what the impossibilities are in a definition. If the definition has infinite possibilities even with some impossibilities, then outside of the box thinking can be logical and explorational. For example, there are infinite hues of green, but green is always any strict blend of blue and yellow with all borders between those two colors dissolved. Therefore, there's always another green that can exist, but it's never orange.

1 next to 1 is always 2 and can represent 10+1, but is never a quantity of 11 ***********

molonski2 · Accepted Answer

My thinking is pretty much always outside the square , I've always had the ability to look at things in a different way , not always a complex outcome , but sometimes complex...

This really helped me a lot with my sales / marketing roles.

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

It's knowing when to think outside the box that counts. The box is usually there for a reason but most people think the box is smaller than it actually is and I've got a big box.

Ice cream is egg and cream and sugar whipped together

Quiche filling is egg and cream whipped together

Hence if you add sugar to quiche you get ice cream

This is why they lock my box

StarWarGirl · Accepted Answer

99% of time. Following same trend, same path all the time feels boring to me. 1% is those moments when it becomes necessary or need for our safety kind thing I can't compromise with it ever, or if I am in dull mood those times.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Creative attorneys win more cases!

Peter_Penetrator · Answer

As an introspective person, always. I do this a lot at work. My coworkers hate it. If l make supervisor soon, those coworkers will want me dead.

If you are an employer, find your laziest man. Ask him to do something. He will find the easiest way to do the job. Maybe not the cheapest way, but the easiest.

DJB72 · Answer

1 1=10 in binary

Outside the box thinking is how every major forward step in history has been made.

If you stay in the box you can't expand. Like a bonsai tree stays small because it's not got a proper root system. Plant that bonsai out of a pot and give it the freedom to expand and it grows to full size.

IslaTheWitch · Answer

11 is three in binary... at my work I have to think out of the box constantly... problems are so abstract that standard thinking wouldn't solve much of them, lol

Nikki1989 · Answer

I hate mainstream thinking, but I can't stand people who act like jerks because they think they are edgy, either.

TommyMountainFigure · Answer

Regularly. For example I would have said 1+1 = 0b10. I constantly find myself using the If, Then, Else, argument too.

Fireguy17 · Answer

all the time at work. Plan A does not usually work out well sometimes, so you have to rethink things, sometimes in a split second.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

I actually have two boxes. One box has no bottom. And I keep the lid open. The other box protects my precious head when it's raining.

exitseven · Answer

I think outside the box a lot. I work in IT where there is usually multiple solutions to a problem

WhitneySnow · Answer

That’s interesting. But is eleven wrong, or just a different interpretation?

bolverk · Answer

Being able to 'Think outside the box' is part and parcel of my job as an Engineer, this overflows into the rest of my life.

AimeeKyle · Answer

All the time. I am generally not a follower.

Alisha18 · Answer

I am being surveillance by national security of india

OtterMan68 · Answer

I usually go against the grain and come up with unique plans

Jay-_- · Answer

Is saying 11 really thinking out of the box or just someone being annoying 😂

NathanDavis · Answer

it's my default

DizzyDesii · Answer

I have a pretty creative mindset. So OFTEN

BCRanger10 · Answer

I'm working on being better about it.

Alex-Snow · Answer

I like being outside the box looking in!

thegreenyogi · Answer

All the time!!

sheikalana · Answer

Quite often.

shortster · Answer

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