When you live in a box, think in a box, it is hard to see anything outside the box. The tendency that people have who think in a box is to reject anything that will not fit in their box, criticize it and throw it away. Creative thinking is a hallmark of intelligence and problem solving. A problem presents in life when the focus is upon compliance, pathology, and what is wrong. What results is that is that all energy focuses upon defending a rationale for what is wrong and virtually what will not fit in the box. Linear thinkers tend to think on a straight line, not being able to see anything that is not on the straight line. People call it concrete thinking, close mindedness, black and white thinking, but something to think about is that thinking in a box can be a symptom of someone who needs to control life in certain definable terms to rid themselves of the anxiety that occurs when something does not fit in the box. Learning to give up control of the way reality is constructed in certain definable terms is a step in developing an ability to think creatively about problems. Thinking outside the box is not unfaithfulness to an ideology; it is being faithful to your own capability to think about creative solutions. The choice that we have is to live in a box– or not, to use your innate intelligence, to focus upon your strengths in ways to bring a positive outcome.
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