Thinking outside the box
By deodavid
@deodavid (4150)
Philippines
August 11, 2012 1:34pm CST
Hey there Guys,
This is about a common phrase that i hear when things with a certain problem is not panning out the way that it is supposed, when it seems that you have already done all the measures yet the problem still isn't resolved then someone says "Think out of the box!!!" well i think most of us have done with this phrase meant to say at
one point in our lives or the other, right?
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4 responses
@AgentGulaman (3546)
• Philippines
12 Aug 12
Yes, this can be correlated to persistence too. Sometimes, it seems that we have exhausted all the possibilities and solutions, but if we persist on achieving something, surely there will be another way around to achieve it. Having the will power and persistence to do something drives thinking out of the box. That is how technology developed through the ages. Human just persisted and thought out of the box. It may look difficult to think out of the box, but if there's a will, there's a way.
@deodavid (4150)
• Philippines
12 Aug 12
Yeah persistence, not being defied by what you cannot achieve at initial try wow on this one you really thought out of the box to give an answer, anyway yeah I guess not being constricted by the norms and really not quitting on an idea is thinking out of the box, pushing to get out of the box i should say.
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@STOUTjodee (3572)
• United States
27 Aug 12
"Thinking outside the box" means to me you're unique in what you do. Kind of like the "gray" area. You have one side or the other, but you could choose in between. Thinking outside the box is when you've exhausted all the logic ways of thinking and when you can come up with another way not like the "normal" way.
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@ciolomiguel (23)
•
10 Sep 12
i was in 2nd year high school when i first heard that phrase.. then i asked myself, what's inside the box that one should be thinking outside it? is the box full of nonsense stuff ?? :p
@gem3072001 (92)
• Philippines
5 Oct 12
inside the box are full of experienced saved and used to inspire u to do more productive acts
@Paper_Doll (2373)
• Philippines
11 Aug 12
Hi deo, I always here those phrase during meetings. The head of our office would usually say that when he is not satisfied with what others are saying. My supervisor told me that our boss may like me because I think out of the box, but actually, it is not like that, I think out of this world LOL and he so hate me for that.
@deodavid (4150)
• Philippines
11 Aug 12
well as long as the boss likes you your supervisor cant do shoot about it, LOL, anyway wow really can you give out an example of it, anyway it is a good way thinking since sometimes the conventional methods don't work and new paths should be accessed.
@freqspaz (220)
• United States
11 Aug 12
If you haven't had to or tell some one to 'think out side the box' then you literally must be living IN the box. Life tends not to conform to the nice square holes that we have round pegs for, so their for daily (pretty much) most of us face some kind of problem that doesn't involve the normal, "bigger hammer will fix it."
