Why thinking out of the box makes the road to innovation wider and wider

The inertia track of thinking about the same or similar problems is called "stereotyped thinking" in thinking science. The so-called stereotyped thinking is "past thinking affects current thinking".

There are obviously many benefits to thinking. It can make the thinker save a lot of fumbling, trying to think of steps, do not go or less detour, greatly shorten the time to think, improve the efficiency of thinking; can also make the thinker in the thinking process feel familiar, easy and happy. But the thinking is not conducive to innovative thinking.

Breaking through the stereotypes as a method of innovative thinking means that, in thinking about the problems to be innovated, to consciously put aside the mind in the past thinking about similar problems formed by the thinking process and mode; to be vigilant and exclude it on the search for a new vision of the binding effect that may arise.

Innovative thinking, we must be vigilant and get rid of the binding effect of stereotyped thinking. Whether at the beginning of creative thinking or at some other point in it, when our thinking gets bogged down, it is often necessary to check to see if we are tied down by some kind of thinking stereotype.

A person's innovative thinking into a certain thinking is mostly unconscious; and out of a thinking, often need to consciously make efforts.

More acceptance of new things, more different ways of thinking about the problem, more expanding horizons, more learning in all aspects of knowledge, help to break through the stereotypes.