It's a reference to a puzzle, which specifically demonstrates how people tend to make "obvious" assumptions which are sometimes incorrect and rather limiting. To solve the puzzle, people have to consider the space around the puzzle to be part of the puzzle.To come up with a new saying to fill the same purpose, you need a replacement for the square puzzle, but then people wouldn't know what you're talking about until you explain it to them.It's not contradictory to keep using this saying. The square puzzle in question actually only has one solution. Every time you "solve" the puzzle, you have to do it the same way. It's just not obvious if you don't go beyond the edge of the square.
Yar, i know!But, nobody explains that, and few have done the puzzle.And still it is a cliche which is obviously a case of laziness and therefore anti-creative.We need somebody to step up to the plate, look the gorilla in the eye, and errr... think outside of the square to come up with a new exhortation to imaginative thinking.BTW why have Australians imported, without even thinking, that cliche- step up to the plate? Come on guys we don't play baseball here. Or perhaps it's a reference to the all-you-can-eat restaurants... step up to the plate and courageously attack that buffet.I think I'd better stop writing now before I get really silly :P
It's a reference to a puzzle, which specifically demonstrates how people tend to make "obvious" assumptions which are sometimes incorrect and rather limiting. To solve the puzzle, people have to consider the space around the puzzle to be part of the puzzle.To come up with a new saying to fill the same purpose, you need a replacement for the square puzzle, but then people wouldn't know what you're talking about until you explain it to them.It's not contradictory to keep using this saying. The square puzzle in question actually only has one solution. Every time you "solve" the puzzle, you have to do it the same way. It's just not obvious if you don't go beyond the edge of the square.
ReplyDeleteYar, i know!But, nobody explains that, and few have done the puzzle.And still it is a cliche which is obviously a case of laziness and therefore anti-creative.We need somebody to step up to the plate, look the gorilla in the eye, and errr... think outside of the square to come up with a new exhortation to imaginative thinking.BTW why have Australians imported, without even thinking, that cliche- step up to the plate? Come on guys we don't play baseball here. Or perhaps it's a reference to the all-you-can-eat restaurants... step up to the plate and courageously attack that buffet.I think I'd better stop writing now before I get really silly :P
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