“Rarely do we find men [people] who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” Martin Luther King Jr.
We often hear people say, “think outside the box” or “we need outside-the-box thinking,” meaning we need to view things and employ ideation that is not constrained, limited, imprisoned, or void of inspiration. Albert Einstein said, “You cannot solve problems using the same consciousness that created them.”
Herein lays the true solution to the problems we confront and grapple with daily. We need to learn to think in new ways and with new dimensions. I produce and host a program called Metanoia for the Solari platform. Metanoia is a Greek word that is often found and translated in the New Testament as “repent.” Meta is the prefix meaning to change or go beyond; noia means mind; Metanoia means to go beyond our present state of mind or to radically change your mind.
Today we need a radical change of mind. We need to, as my wife recently shared with me, think as if there is no box. In this sense, the box represents confinement, imprisonment to a world view or perspective about things and how the world works. We were put in this box by our parents, who were put in it by their parents and authority figures of their day: teachers, religious leaders, politicians, the media, and their peers. This box limits us and stultifies us, preventing us from exercising our full intellectual capacities because the box is a model, a paradigm we are confined too. But now the box is even more nefarious. It is the undue influence of psychological manipulation of social media.
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