Get Out of the box...is this contribution just a cliché?

Hi there..nowadays it seems to be extremelly complicated to sell the idea of authenticity when the concept of changing or breaking paradigms is absolutely threshed!!...this is precisely the psychosomatic program we must beat!, otherwise -later or sooner- the streets will be flooded with our automata personality...


The phrase used for the title of this text and solution for the following puzzle is in fact so old -early in the 20th century- that's why many times we force ourselves to believe that the obsolecense comes with the label of "trite"--- let's rephrase the idea and let's call it now "lateral thinking" or whatever...fresh/new concepts are much admired but i do believe this is not related with refreshing but related with practice... my point is on the fact that the concept of "get out of the box" has been quite learned/understood ...but still not used enough...i think so.


Practice does not guarantee perfection...but builds habits.

cheers,

cario

1) "Out of the box" is an expression that describes nonconformal, creative thinking. The term is used as an adverb to describe the thinking or as an adjective to describe the ideas. The term is said to derive from a famous puzzle created by early 20th century British mathematician Henry Ernest Dudeney, in which someone is asked to interconnect nine dots in a three-by-three grid by using four straight lines drawn without the pencil leaving the paper. In order to be successful, the puzzle solver has to realize that the boundries of the dot array are psychological. 

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The only way to solve the puzzle is to extend the lines beyond the artificial boundry created by the nine dots. One also thinks of the expression "boxed-in," or having reduced choices. In the fast-paced world of information technology, employers often say they are looking for someone who "thinks out of the box." Older, related but really different terms include blue sky, far out, and off the wall. A variation is "outside the box."

As you might expect, the term "in the box" is sometimes used to describe conformal thinking. For example, in a recent magazine article about MP3 and music pirating, a manager of some music groups is quoted as saying of major label recording companies who have been slow to adapt to the Internet, "They're always thinking inside of the box."

2) "Out of the box" is also used as a synonym for "off the shelf," meaning a ready-made software, hardware, or combination package that meets a need that would otherwise require a special development effort.

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some links i read:

http://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/out-of-the-box

http://www.ninedot.com.au/nine%20dot%20puzzle.html