What "Thinking Outside the Box" Means To Me by Hailey

What "Thinking Outside the Box" Means To Me by Hailey - October 2018 Scholarship Essay

The invention of the wheel was a miraculous invention, along with the airplane, and the telephone. All the inventions that have ever been created weren't just something that was already drawn out on a piece of paper for the inventors. They had to think. They had to imagine the masterpiece before it was even a physical object. These people weren't just thinkers or inventors. These people "Thought Outside the Box."
The writer Sarah Susanka, the author of "The Not So Big House," once said that "The ability to think creatively, responding to needs and wishes, not to preconceived ideas of what something should look like, then the problem will be solved." [SIC] What I think she means by this is if someone is going to make something or do something for the people of the world, they should not assume or pretend to know what they want. They need to go out, ask them, figure it out and then when they have completed the finished product, it will be successful.
Many people who try to invent something are not successful because they are afraid to break the confines of the outline. What I mean by this is that the people are so accustomed to thinking like everybody else, they are afraid to explore the possibilities of their mind. They can't picture something that already isn't there. Often a person will see something that was invented and wonder why they never thought of something so simple. The answer is very uncomplicated. They didn't break the confines of the outline. To me, "thinking outside the box" means going beyond the norm, taking the road less traveled, going against conforming to societies built in ways. Just because the road is less traveled, does not mean there is something wrong with it or that it is wrong. Maybe other people are just too afraid to try it. To think outside the box, one must be brave. They must be willing to take chances and make mistakes in order to discover something original and unique that no one else may have though of.
Normally, when people do a puzzle, they will have to think about the answers, sort of like a maze. If what they first try doesn't work then they have to try another direction to see if something else will work. Those people, even though they don't know it, have just thought outside the box. They have decided that rather than quitting, they are going to keep trying and see if they can find another way to do it.
People should always be encouraged to think outside of the box and to think of something original, something different, something amazing and never thought of. I everyone conforms to the basic ways of doing everything, how is society going to grow? How is technology going to improve? How will new and better ideas come about? The simple answer is, nothing can ever improve or grow without people who are courageous enough to think deeper, to think smarter, not harder.