Can thinking outside the box be taught?

[MrJ]

I have a few threads that I like to re-post every couple years because I find the answers interesting, this is one such topic.

In order to "create" a DECENT (not a H.G.) method, you can NOT think like the masses do, you MUST look at roulette differently. Be creative, almost like a painter before he/she hits the canvas.

If this is you.... we get paid 35:1 and there are 38 numbers (throws hands in the air),

"Thats it, no point in playing. We cant win". << If this is you, you will NEVER be able to think outside the box, trust me, you are doomed and dont even know it. You cant ask me..... "Hey Ken, how can I also think outside the box"?

I cant answer you, it can not be taught (imo). A person either has it OR does not have it, no middle ground (imo).

So what do you think? Can thinking outside the box be taught? Keep in mind please, I NEVER said, thinking outside the box will bring you riches, thats a different thread for YOU to start if you choose so dont ruin MY thread please.

Ken

[Dane]

Interesting question! Some of the children in "my Kindergarten" are able to paint better than me. But none of them are able to play the piano like me.
Certain CREATIVE skills in different areas might be developed very early in life. There are, however, various methods to develop our consciousness. I myself have practiced Transcendental Meditation (TM) almost as long as David Lynch.
Stuart Heritage (cool name!) wrote on this method in the Guardian on the 1ST of March this year. Just do a Google search! He compared it to BLINDFOLDNESS (or something like that  ).
In his article Stuart Heritage did not mention Money. Nowadays it is rather expensive to learn TM. Of course there are other methods. Try to find one that suits you!
                                                                                       
                                                                                       Dane

[vladir]

Thinking outside the box, requires that first we have to know the box very, very well.

So we go on to learn about everything we can about "the box".

The problem appears at this stage, the more we know the box, the more we hold on to it and what we learn from it. Usually this happens because the box makes us feel safe. This safety is illusory of course, for no box is representative of the ultimate truth. But we often ignore or forget that, and we keep on living in the box, and the longer you live there, the more you will identify yourself with it, and the harder it will be to leave it.

Don't get me wrong,I'm not saying boxes are bad. The boxes are useful, but they should be used as steps in a stair. We should use them to climb to a higher box and not to camp inside the first one that is comfortable.

So... can we learn this? Yes, I believe everyone potentially can.  The question is more of  "do we wan't to learn to view the world differently, and leave behind all the security the present box gives us?"

[iggiv]

to solve a complicated puzzle you don't have just to "think unlike others". You have to be able to connect different pieces of the puzzle.
You have to find out what other people didn't. Even though  your findings may be based on very simple well known things.
But you will have to be able to go FURTHER. To dig out things which were not touched by others.
If this puzzle is extremely complicated most people will simply give up, or will try just simple methods to solve a complicated problem.

[ddarko]

I think the phrase itself has different meaning to different people, hence it a difficult question to answer.

To compare to roulette, I think it does mean "looking down routes untrodden"

Over at another forum people are using lines as EC's, I feel it's that kinda thinking that may produce some results.