Out of the box: Critical Thinking

1. Out
of
the
box
thinking

2. Sometimes an easy
task become difficult
and then comes...

3. frustration!!!

4. You need to
know how to
get out of
the box!

5. We
actually
live
inside
our
boxes...

7. Why should you really go out
of the box?

8. Inside
the box
we feel
safe

9. But it's
risky out
there!

11. Which box are
we talking
about?

12. The
boundaries
are in our
mind...

13. We have indirect
experience from
years spent in school
and university...

14. ...to learn what other people
have thought or discovered

15. Our direct
experiences
really make
what we
are.

16. We feel
safe inside
our boxes

18. Do we need to wait for an apple
to fall on our heads or

19. Are there some
specific techniques?

20. We know
these are
Mary
because
that's they
always
have been
(convergent info)

21. But to get
out of the
box...

22. ...we have to add a little spice

23. Something wrong
Something Absurd
Something Irrelevant
(divergent info)

25. Where to go once
you are out of the
box?

26. It's like
the
middle
game
in
chess

27. we don't
really
know
where to
go

28. it makes us go back
inside the box

29. Normally we talk about
Brilliant
thinking
Fast
thinking Deep
thinking
Logical
thinking

30. But here we are talking about
long thinking which means

31. we
need
to go
far

32. You
have to
be open
minded

33. Serendipity
happens all the time

34. We are
social
animals

35. who lives in
an
environment

36. but to get out of the box

37. we have to
challenge the
environment

38. Created by:
Tarun Gupta
IIT Delhi
(during an internship by
Prof. Sameer Mathur,
IIM Lucknow.
www.IIMInternship.com)