Existentialism for the day:
Can we exist without a box?
Can we ever ignore the existence of the box?
If we ignore the box, do we exist?
Can we physically be in the box but tell our mind that the box doesn't exist?
Seriously, the phrase "thinking outside the box" has been so overused so much so that it has lost its meaning and glitter.
"Thinking without the box" is nothing but a meaningless derivative of that phrase.
But let us analyze it anyway.
To think outside the box, we must first know the box. What is the box? How does the box make us think? Why must we not think within the box?
Only then we can think OUTSIDE the box.
And be free of the box.
But in doing so, the box is still there. It is just that we are outside of it.
To think without the box is an impossibility. Because without the box, there is nothing. Only a vacuum.
And we can't exist in a vacuum.
In the context of an organization, the rules and regulations set by the management is the box.
To implore the staff to think without the box is to ask the staff to ignore the existence of the rules and regulations.
Now that, to me, is dangerous.
I wouldn't say so. But then, that's just me being me.
