"""But you pay someone to indoctrinate you with exactly the same methods and formulae that all of your competitors are using. Then you expect to come to not just a different conclusion, but a market-beating conclusion? That just sounds dumb."""
Counter argument: Creativity entails not only novelty (that outside the box stuff) but also utility, and in order to be useful, it has to go above-and-beyond what is already known (that inside the box stuff). It's about embracing what's been done before, because it's practice that gives us the capacity to build on the old ideas to make the new.
If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.
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"""But you pay someone to indoctrinate you with exactly the same methods and formulae that all of your competitors are using. Then you expect to come to not just a different conclusion, but a market-beating conclusion? That just sounds dumb."""
Counter argument: Creativity entails not only novelty (that outside the box stuff) but also utility, and in order to be useful, it has to go above-and-beyond what is already known (that inside the box stuff). It's about embracing what's been done before, because it's practice that gives us the capacity to build on the old ideas to make the new.
If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.
Indeed,
If you never get inside the box, you won't even know what the box means or what "outside the box" means.
Excellent point. However I think you can learn about the box by reading books, too.
The question is, once you get in, how do you get out?
I think the answer to that question is genius and hard work.
"If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid."
I think I will use this in the future.