ॐ Creative thinking

The way we think is conditioned by our life experiences. If we've spent our life in a classroom, we tend to think as a student or teacher. If we've spent our work life as an employee, we tend to think as an employee.

Many new entrepreneurs talk-the-talk of the entrepreneur -- but their thinking is still grounded in their life as an employee. This can be deadly to their goals and aspirations.

Most employees don't think about where the money comes from to pay their weekly wages and benefits. Or how the cash must flow to meet next month's payroll. Or what accounts are becoming payable, or when tax deposits, rent, and loan payments are due. Or where the money will come from to allow the company to deliver a large order just received from its largest customer...


It's difficult for an employee to learn to think "outside the box".


"Positively thinking outside the BOX"


How can one person think out of the BOX? This should be done independently but how???


Let say you are asked to cut a cake into 8 slices. what will you do?you will look at the cake in certain angle and then you will take the knife and cut the cake nicely and delicately into nice 8 pieces. Pieces are good, the consumers are happy. Now you are asked to make no more then 3 cuts. Most people will have trouble to coming up how to cut the cake into 8 piece in 3 cut. But to solve this , you have to change the way you look at the cake and how to cut it.


One perfect solution is to cut the cake into 2 equal size and put the other half on top of other, cut it again in half and then stack the other half pieces on top of one another an cut them again. There you go, thats thinking outside the box.


If you are asked to think about 2 days which start with 'T'. What will be your answer? your answer would probably be "Tuesday" and "thursday". but hey..how about  "tommorow" and "today" ? well thats out of the BOX right? if you are asked to spot the difference between the word "Multiply", "subtract" "Add" and "decrease" ? mostly the people will right way say that the word "decrease" is the odd one. Why? As all other 3 word is mathematical jargon and the word "decrease" is not a mathmetical jargon. But thats not thinkink out of the box........if you think out of the box the answer would be the word "ADD" since it has only 3 alphabet and others has 6 or more...


you could give lot of right answer but the one that shows more lot of creativity stands out. 


Take thing as they are and turn them inside out, upside down, or simply turn them around and you will be surprised with the result. This was Henry Ford personal experience. His conventional plan was just to " bring people to work" . He tried to change all this into bring "bring work to the people". This plan generated more revenues.




To think outside the box never shy away from the fact that some of your ideas could realy be crazy enough. This gives the thinker more freedom to think outside the box and re-invent things in way they have never been arranged before. Thinking outside the box is usually known as creative thinking seeks to desighn really new and creative arrangement of elements to produce a work of ART. This is dangerous,  but it could be one of your strength in no time. If the HERD is going to right you are going other way.


 Being creative and out of the box is wild sometimes, but could move you through growth and self-development. you will be surprised that how easy and differently it will be for you to try and fix "ISSUES" and solve things away from the tried and true habits.




CREATIVITY has nothing to do with any activity in particular. Anything can be creative -- you bring that quality to the activity. Activity itself is neither creative nor uncreative. You can paint in an uncreative way. You can sing in an uncreative way. You can clean the floor in a creative way. You can cook in a creative way. 

Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach -- how you look at things. 

Not everybody can be a painter -- and there is no need also. If everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be difficult to live. And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is no need. But everybody can be creative. 
Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing it is not purely economical, then it is creative. If you have something growing out of it within you, if it gives you growth, it is spiritual, it is creative.


So if you are seeking something else in the name of creativity, then drop the idea of being creative. At least consciously, deliberately, do whatsoever you want to do. Never hide behind masks. If you really want to be creative, then there is no question of money, success, prestige, respectability -- then you enjoy your activity; then each act has an intrinsic value. You dance because you like dancing; you dance because you delight in it. If somebody appreciates, good, you feel grateful. If nobody appreciates, it is none of your business to be worried about it. You danced, you enjoyed -- you are already fulfilled.

*Remember that you could be genius in your own way.