I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Interpretation
Encouragement to think creatively requires prior evidence of conventional thinking.
This quote by Terry Pratchett highlights the importance of foundational or conventional thinking as a prerequisite for fostering creativity. It suggests that in order to truly encourage innovative ideas and 'thinking outside the box,' there must first be a clear understanding and demonstration of traditional thinking processes. Without this grounding, efforts to encourage creativity may be ineffective or misguided.
In practice
In a team meeting focused on brainstorming, use this quote to emphasize the value of foundational ideas.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!
Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace_x000D_ _x000D_ Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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