Be More Creative (Think Outside the Box)
You must have heard the words, “Think outside the box.”
But did you know how you can do it?
What is the real meaning of it?
Why you should have to think outside the box?
To know the answers to these questions, read this post till the end.
In this post, I will tell you why it is important to think outside the box? When and where you can do this? How it helps you to be successful in life? and the most important how you can do it?
Thinking Outside the Box
What it means?
It means to think in a different way. It means to do the things in a different and in a better way.
It means to find a new way to do a work in a better way.
Let me explain it in a broader sense.
Thinking outside the box means you think or do work by breaking the traditional rules/ways which are present in your surroundings. You find new ways to do a work.
Now you know the meaning or know what it means. Now its time to take a step forward.
Why it is important in our life?
Believe me or not, all the successful persons have a very creative mind. So, that they think and find some new ways to implement or grow their business.
If Mark Zuckerberg (the founder of Facebook) just complete his studies and never do anything else, Facebook would never be created. If he just does the things in the old, traditional ways like go to college get a degree and work in a company, he would never become so rich. Those who didn’t know him, I tell you. Now he has a property of billions. And Facebook is counted in the world's biggest social media platform.
Another example is of Bhuvan Bam (also known as BB). He is you tuber and his per month earnings are approximately in 4-5 lakhs. If he too just does the things in old ways (go to college, get a degree) he would never be so rich. So what did he do? He has a passion for comedy and singing, so he starts a YouTube channel, and now making tons of money.
There are many more persons who left their college or a job and do the work of their passion. Harsh Agarwal and Amit Agarwal are from those persons.
What is the common in these all successful persons?
They all think outside the box. They broke their surroundings rule or traditions and make their life better.
They didn’t fear what would people say about him. They didn’t fear their failure. And the results are now in front of us.
It all depends on our mentality.
Now you know why it is important in our life to think in a different way. Now let move toward to the next stage or point.
How to be more creative?
1. Find your passion
Finding your passion is one the important thing in becoming a more creative person.
Passion means the things which you love to do and in which you are expert or have plenty of knowledge. Passionate things are those which one never get tired of doing.
How can you find your passion?
*Take a pen and a paper, and write all those things which you love to do.
*Now cut off those things in which you are not expert or you didn’t have much knowledge.
*Now prioritize these things.
*Now select the first three things and look at future. Means look that which one of these will be beneficial to you.
*That’s it.
It is very simple. If you are still confused then reading this: Turn your passion into a career it will help you.
2. Get Ready for the Challenges
“Prepare yourself for the worst situations and then you will get the best results.”
In this field, there are many challenges. If you want to become more creative than you must be ready for the challenges. Don’t be afraid of the failures.
If you do something new, there are very higher chances that you will get failed. But hey failure is temporary if you have the courage to move on. Those who didn’t have failed in anything, haven’t tried anything new.
Prepare yourself, so that even if you failed, cannot change anything.
“Falling down is a mistake, but it depends on us what we choose, whether we can stay down or whether we can stand up and move on.”
3. Move out from Comfort Zone
“Comfort zone is a beautiful place but nothing ever grows there.”
If you want to be successful in life. wan to do things that others are can’t even think about, then you must move on from your comfort zone.
What is comfort zone?
Comfort zone is a place where you do the things in old ways and lives a life where there is no stress or pain is present.
But hey, who knows about the future? One day you must have to do some work and must leave your comfort zone. So why not move on today?
Move on from your comfort zone and get ready to face the new challenges, new problems, and new adventures.
Those who do work away from their comfort zone, become successful in life.
Now here are two different terms. And I am sure you will have confused in these two.
These are Passionate things and comfort zone.
Now you might be thinking that if I do the work in which I am passionate about, it would be fun.
Yeah, its true. But is a limit. At a stage, you realized that you must have to grow your skills and techniques.
So how can you grow your skills and techniques?
By moving away from your comfort zone and by practicing consistently.
Yup, you read it right. Even if you are passionate about something, you must have to practice that work consistently. Only this is the way that you can grow your skills and techniques.
4. Question Things
This is a practical thing that you can do to increase or to be more creative in life.
Questions the things which are happening around you and try to find their answers.
In this way, you will learn more knowledge and can become more curious about things.
Curiosity helps a lot in becoming more creative or we can say to think outside the box.
How?
If you are curious about something, you try to find your answers. In this process, you learn many new things. And new things mean more knowledge and more knowledge means more ideas.
“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.”
2 Comments
Hey Manish , really motivative and useful article !
ReplyDeleteThank you Vishwajit. Glad to know that you like it and found useful.
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