Thinking Outside the Box

A buzz phrase, a jargon, widely mentioned but unfortunately least understood fully.

Thinking outside the box presupposes the ability to think in the first place.

If one is not even capable of thinking, than really thinking within the box is not very possible, let alone outside.

Why is thinking so difficult, one may think.

Thinking is a learned ability as much as it an innate one.

Thinking and language is also intricately linked since we all must reason in our mind or even aloud verbalised or written in script through a reasoning media: a language.

However, empirically, whilst language and thinking are intricately linked, it does not necessarily mean that people with language disabilities is in any way concomitantly disabled in thinking abilities.

Deaf, mute, blind and illiterate people who had no acquired language abilities are known to be able to think reasonably and creatively.

The Swiss behaviorist Piaget hypothesised that thinking is an innate ability because babies even before acquiring the ability to verbalise speech are able to reason and solve problems. It is as if we were all born with an innate language free reasoning ability before we take up a learned language to function as the reasoning language media.

It is also apparent that since language influences reasoning, and since all languages are culture bias, the language a person uses to reason do limit or box a person's reasoning ability.

For a ideas to flow, there must not be any limits but total freedom.

Anyone who aspires to greatness must be given the total freedom to fly like an Eagle and not be boxed and bound on the ground like a Turkey.

Sometimes we box ourselves by our fear and sometimes by our ignorance.

We could be living in a totally free country and yet our thinking could be boxed in by our culture and religion, we fear to think beyond what we think our religion allows.

To me, a religion or culture that imposes on how we ought to think is despotic.

God is not a despot because he made us no robots. On the contrary, he made us humans with a free will to choose and integral to free choice is free will and to free will the freedom to think.

When we are fearful even to think the seemingly forbidden things, we deny the greatness of the Almighty in making us humans with a free will.

Similarly, let no man or angels, fallen or otherwise dissuade us from the basic right God has given us and most enlightened governments that followed in tandem to support: the Freedom to Think.

Thinking Outside the Box presupposes the ability to think and to think freely without any inhibitions or limits as a 'Box' symbolises: constraints.

It is easy for leaders, political or otherwise to urge the people to think outside the box, the irony is who created the box when none is supposed to be there in the first place and do they impose on others what they themselves are incapable of doing.

Let it not be like a father crab commanding its children to walk straight, let him the leader learn or even undergo therapy to walk straight first!

Asking his people to think outside the box when they are still imprisoned in the box is one big joke leaders can command their people to be.

Do I hear a familiar voice from the distant past in the land of the despotic Pharaoh?

Just as Moses told Pharaoh, the message from the Great I AM reverberated through the ages:

Let My People Go and Let My People Grow!