THINKING OUT OF THE BOX
During my school days ,one our teacher entered our class he greeted us and told us to get a piece of paper which we did .then we were told to draw a box on it ,he did not mention the size of the box to draw .
After doing that he told us to draw anything we felt like drawing on the same paper .others drew inside the box, whilst others draw outside the box. As he went round the class inspecting our drawings, he notices that.
He asked us if we had finished drawing, then he say to us ‘those that have drawn inside the box think within the box’ and those that who have drawn out of the box think outside the box.
He went on explaining the dangers of thinking within the box and he told us a story of two men and a farmer.
There were two men that worked for a farmer in a maize field. One day the two men were given each one a cob.
One of the men got carried away by the hunger he felt. Whilst his friend who also felt hungry thought of tomorrow dug a small garden and planted the grains.
After some months the crops were ready to be harvested and the man that ate his grains came to beg for some maize from him.
The teacher was emphasising to take our thinking about the future seriously, making sacrifice on what we are today to what we will be tomorrow. This man stirred up my thinking and so it was from that day I stopped being comfortable with society thinking.
From that day on I had to battle with the philosophy of the thinking different, I also realised that our community has a certain standard of doing things and when new ideas are introduced, they are rejected.
After doing that he told us to draw anything we felt like drawing on the same paper .others drew inside the box, whilst others draw outside the box. As he went round the class inspecting our drawings, he notices that.
He asked us if we had finished drawing, then he say to us ‘those that have drawn inside the box think within the box’ and those that who have drawn out of the box think outside the box.
He went on explaining the dangers of thinking within the box and he told us a story of two men and a farmer.
There were two men that worked for a farmer in a maize field. One day the two men were given each one a cob.
One of the men got carried away by the hunger he felt. Whilst his friend who also felt hungry thought of tomorrow dug a small garden and planted the grains.
After some months the crops were ready to be harvested and the man that ate his grains came to beg for some maize from him.
The teacher was emphasising to take our thinking about the future seriously, making sacrifice on what we are today to what we will be tomorrow. This man stirred up my thinking and so it was from that day I stopped being comfortable with society thinking.
From that day on I had to battle with the philosophy of the thinking different, I also realised that our community has a certain standard of doing things and when new ideas are introduced, they are rejected.