You have undoubtedly heard that it’s a good thing to think outside the box. But, what exactly does that mean? What do you understand by this term? Why is it a good thing? And how can it benefit your career?
Many such questions arise in our minds by just thinking about this phrase. So, let’s discuss some good facts and details about it today.
Meaning: “Out of the box thinking”, We can also say this term as thinking outside the box or thinking beyond the box , also in some part of the world like Australia people denote the same term as ‘Thinking outside the square’.
It is basically a Metaphor that means to think differently or unconventionally, or to think from a new perspective. It simply means that you are willing to consider different solutions and methods for reaching your desired outcome.
Let’s understand this with the help of an example; suppose, you want to get to point B from point A, but for doing so, you don’t have to necessarily choose or need to follow the old tried and true stereotype path to get over there. So, you can develop a new way to reach the goal, that’s when you pose the “Out of the Box thinking”.
It can have a very positive and powerful impact on your career as well. So, being a teacher lets study some great points related to it today that Why do you need to think out of the box? And how it can get you help ahead?
We all should encourage this sort of thinking as it has immense benefits on our lives as well as the career from which some of them are:-
Questioning the status quo:
Questioning is a very good thing. If everyone just accepts the things, the way they are, then there would never be any innovative thing in the world around us. There would be no improvement in the world around us. But, when we start thinking outside the box the whole scenario is changed.
Greater Perspective:
The world can become very small if you become close minded but thinking out of the box can expand your World Wide view. By doing this you allow to have great perspective on the events and happenings in your career and also in the life.
Higher Quality Work:
Happy and Healthy employees tend to be more loyal, productive and hardworking. Each successful company or organization have a different approach to company culture, which they follow to become successful like some offer wellness services, some offer free travelling and tour packages, some offers weekend party bookings in five and seven stars for their employees, which an individual don’t give utmost importance and dismiss as a waste of money. But by thinking out of the box with their company culture, their employee enjoy these facilities and company becomes successful with better caliber employees and work, which makes it well worth the expenditure they put on with these offerings.
More Creative Problem Solving:
When you are thinking in the box as opposed to outside of it, your career growth can be stunned. When there are a finite number of ways that can be done, also there is a limit to what you can achieve. Alternatively, when you think outside the box, suddenly there are many more possibilities and opportunities with more creative ways to solve problems.
It also makes you more ‘Adaptable’, “It also makes you Unique and helps you stand out of the crowd”. It can make you famous as well.
Every successful and famous personality follows the key principle-
“THINK DIFFERENT”.
So, the main idea we got by thinking out of the box is to think freely, not to be bound by old and non functional or limiting structures and rules of practices.
The person who thinks out of the box might be a very Right-Brained person; I would like to give that person a more appropriate term as “INGENIOUS”.
Moral: Don’t be afraid to be different because it can separate you from competitors and help you stand out from the crowd- “Crowning” you in a good way.
By
Mrs. Akanksha Rajput
TGT
Shivom Vidyapeeth, Sankra