“What we know is based on only a modest level of understanding. If you carry that truth around with you, you are instantaneously ready to challenge what you think you know the minute you see anything that suggests it might not be right. … you not only need to know what people know, but how they know it. You have to regularly question everything and everyone.” (Jerome Groopman, M.D., How Doctors Think)
But at the same time…
If you’re always thinking outside the box, to the point where you’re incapable of thinking inside the box then all you’ve got yourself is a different damn box…. and you might as well stop washing your hair, start wearing sandles and saying “peace, man!”.
Incapable of thinking inside the box? Sounds like a case of losing one’s grip on reality, or perhaps one’s sense of normality. After all, the box is there for a reason, and being able to leave it doesn’t necessarily mean it should be recycled. This is one of those posts that makes me curious to know the examples you have in mind.
But what’s wrong with wearing sandals?
Peace, man.
Basing your opinion on facts isn’t thinking outside the box, man.
Keep on truckin’.
Didn’t Richard Feynman once say something like “keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out ” … :-}