How do you think outside of a box?

Answer 1

above and beyond. Not narrowminded

Answer 2

Attempt to understand that structure has little to do with innovation:


We've Always Done It That Way
Does the statement, 'We've always done it that way' ring any bells...?
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5
inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.

Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates
built the US Railroads.

Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the
pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did 'they' use that gauge then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that
they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?
Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break
on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the
spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads?
Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England)
for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts in the roads?
Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to
match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were
made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived
from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. And
bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification
and wonder what horse's *** came up with it, you may be exactly right,
because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to
accommodate the back ends of two war horses.

Now the twist to the story...

When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big
booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are
Solid Rocket Boosters, or “SRB”s. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their
factory at Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred
to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the
factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to
run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that
tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the
railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the World's
most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ***.

And you thought being a HORSE'S *** wasn't important!"

Answer 3

step 1: place a box on your head and keep it there for one week
step 2: try to do math problems, think up analysys, and go to school like that
step 3: at the end of the week, do the same activities after u have taken the box off of your head

there u heave it. you would have been thinking "outside of the box"

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Answer 4

Why is this question in the bird category? I ask, because each category would have a different answer because the box you think in would be different. So, in a sense, putting this question in the bird category was thinking outside the box!

Answer 5

build a box.....get outside of it...think.

Answer 6

Taking a different approach to things than others do. Shifting paradigms

Answer 7

Darned if I know. That expression has become so trite that it no longer means what it originally was supposed to mean:

Thinking up new ways to go about things. New ideas. New methods and approaches.

Answer 8

build a circle and ditch the box

Answer 9

I LOVE THIS QUESTION AS IT LET'S ONE BE CREATIVE WITHOUT LIMITING THEM TO THE LEGALISTICS OF MODERN WAYS. FOR EXAMPLE. A CHURCH DOESN'T HAVE TO HAVE FOUR WALLS AND A ROOF FOR ME TO HAVE CHURCH.

OF COURSE, NEITHER THIS QUESTION NOR MY ANSWER HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH BIRDS.

Answer 10

YOU STEP OUTSIDE!