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The View From Out of the Box
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The View From Out of the Box

The actual process of insightful thinking, the ability to think Outside of the Box (OOB), is not well known. Perhaps because this way of thinking also involves feeling, synthesizing, or even dreaming, and not everyone is “wired” this way. Incredible patience for multi-step processes can be involved. Often inventors report that the ideas had “landed on them” or “come to them out of nowhere.” Or that they took a nap and woke up with the inspiration fully formed.

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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C Clarke
Author, Futurist, Inventor