Surely you have heard at some point the phrase “Think Outside the Box”. This is something that certainly resounds in your head, if you keep reading the rest of these lines, we assure you that it can help you in any aspect of your life.
Thinking outside the box is easier than it seems, it is about breaking your own paradigms and seeing beyond what limits you in a different way than you are used to. This is part of our being, we are all capable of imagining and creating, only that there is a possibility that you are going through a moment of mental stagnation.
Believe it or not, everything that we talked about earlier is linked to psychology that is something called “Divergent thinking or lateral thinking” and the person in charge of it is the right hemisphere of the brain.
These terms are coined by the Psychologist Edward de Bono and are expressed in his book “The Use of Lateral Thinking”. So, what do you eat this with? Divergent or lateral thinking is nothing more than looking for what makes you leave your comfort zone, which leads you to look for other alternatives to solve a problem.
In business management, thinking outside the box will be an ally to find other ways to solve a problem in an original and creative way. In your personal life, it will take you to broaden your spectrum and see situations from other perspectives. If you are an entrepreneur, put divergent or lateral thinking into practice, it will lead you to create the idea of the century, to direct the future of your company or of what you want to start, but you do not know how. In marketing, it will help you to carry out campaigns and unimaginable strategies, which we assure you will be successful.
What to do to think outside the box?
First you must start by having confidence in yourself and keep in mind that all the ideas that pass through your head are good, our brain is very broad and we use it very little; Only you have the ability to set limits and remove them. The ability to solve problems will be greater as you work on your creativity, if children are capable of this. Why do not you? You just have to move to what you would never do, so get going.
There are exercises that will help you find answers to various situations:
- The exercise of the 9 points, find the way to join the nine points without lifting the pencil and only with 4 straight lines.
- Exercises to solve conflicts or solutions.
- Brainstorming, perfect to meet in a group and where thousands of ideas will come out.
- Make of the ordinary something different.
- Finally, do not despair, the best ideas always come out of unexpected situations.
And you, are you ready to achieve success?
