
Inside the box
by Drew Boyd · first published 2013
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"This counterintuitive and powerfully effective approach to creativity demonstrates how every corporation and organization can develop an innovative culture. The traditional attitude toward creativity in the American business world is to "think outside the box"--to brainstorm without restraint in hopes of coming up with a breakthrough idea, often in moments of crisis. Sometimes it works, but it's a problem-specific solution that does nothing to engender creative thinking more generally. Inside the Box demonstrates Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT), which systemizes creativity as part of the
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No it doesn’t. Pragmatic thinking is just another mental algorithm. You just haven’t learn any good out-of-the-box thinking algorithms. May I suggest Inside the Box? https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Box-Creativity-Breakthrough-Re...
on “Ask HN: Does being practical act as a hinderance to one’s imagination?” ↗I'm now reading about a systemized approach to this idea in a book called "Inside The Box". It details ways to innovate and create original products/services by narrowing or constraining ones options for solving a problem. I think we are all capable of this type of "genius" and the book's…
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