This follows my post on November 20 on “Think Out of The Box”. I have almost forgotten this very question I left at the end of the post. My apologies.
I guess you have had your answer already.
As to the workshop I mentioned, you can imagine all sorts of answers from the floor. 2 is the standard one. Some said 4, 5, 10, or 20. Also, a few yelled out loudly at the back, ”Infinity.”
Use your imagination, it can be any number, can be 1 or infinity, said the speaker.
Why 1? He waved in his hands the two parts of his pen. As he put the two together, he said, “one plus one makes …… one.” He was not wrong.
What about infinity? He had made a number of examples, but this one should top all of them. He said, what happens when you have one man and one woman? 
It was a very enjoyable event. We all had good laughs. I am sure everyone had brought home some valuable ideas. As for me, it is the sense of freedom and space, and the certainty that there is really no limit as to what I could become.
We are what we think!
Live Life, Junius.
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We often hear people say “think out of the box”? What exactly does it mean?
I would say that the box could be our comfort zone. The Wikipedia defines comfort zone as the environments and behaviours with which one is comfortable, without creating a sense of risk. With this definition, an analogy that vividly comes to mind is the one about the frog. The poor thing sits comfortably inside a jar of water, not knowing that it is on a simmering fire and is gradually (unaware by itself) boiled to death. People say the biggest danger is the lack of a sense of danger. How true it is!
I would also describe the box as the box of conformity. Human civilization has gone through different eras of transformation, from the agricultural state, to industrialization, to the computer age, and now the information highway. For most things, we know that we simply cannot apply the same principles from our ancestors and make it work at this time and age. We need to change.
I remember some interesting questions from a brain-power workshop I attended some time ago. For instance:
“Who would win the race, the rabbit or the tortoise?” (Would you like to think of your answer first before reading on?)
I don’t know your answer, but almost all the people on the floor (including myself) said,” the tortoise!”
We were right if we were asked about the forever told story of the Rabbit and the Tortoise. Why on earth would we think that the tortoise could run faster than the rabbit if not because of that story you and I have heard over a hundred times? This is a good case of conformity, isn’t it?
Now, what about “1+1 =?”
Live Life, Junius.
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