'The Box' is a set of self-imposed cognitive limitations

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'The Box'

Thinking

'The Box' is a set of self-imposed cognitive limitations.

Vadim Kotelnikov (VadiK), innopreneur coaching by example

"The box" is a cell of
voluntary mental self-imprisonment.

Outside-the-box thinkers are jail breakers.

This puzzle illustrates the value of outside-the-box thinking. Join the 9 dots with 4 straight lines without lifting the pen. It is only by thinking outside that the box the solution can be found.

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'The Box' − a set of self-imposed limitations

'The Box' is a metaphor that symbolizes a set of any self-imposed cognitive limitations.

These self-imposed cognitive limitations can be internal, individual or external, shared. Knowledge structures, the way of thinking and what a person thinks about are individual limitations. Paradigms and a widely accepted model providing the context for understanding and decision-making in a particular field are shared limitations. А collection of two sets of internal and shared interactive mental models form 'The Box'.

'The Box' makes people reject outside-the-box ideas because they cause a cognitive dissonance.

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How To Think Outside the Box

To think outside the box is to look further and to try not thinking of the obvious things, but to try thinking of the things beyond them.

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Never forget that knowledge plays to opposite roles ‒ it serves as a fertile soil for generating new ideas and entraps people in old ways of seeing and thinking.

Comfort zones are enemies of achievement, the kingdom where stagnation reigns and unrealized dreams are buried. Once you rid yourself of conventional thinking you can get on with creating something truly innovative.

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Thinking outside the box means approaching challenges and problems in new, innovative ways; conceptualizing problems in non-conventional ways; perceiving situations differently; and searching for non-obvious solutions.

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Lateral thinking is concerned with breaking out of the concept prisons of old ideas.

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How to use this information

① "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." ~ Bruce Lee

② Sleep on this information – your powerful superconscious mind will tell you how to use it when you wake up

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Insight and Highersight

Insight helps you understand what's inside the box.

HIGHERsight helps you see farther and understand what's outside the box.