boxer rebellion. are you an out of the box thinker? would you like to be? well, first off, how many out of the box thinkers do you know? me, i don't think i know any. i'm a bit tripped up by the term "out of the box thinker." i'm not sure what that means.

by definition, "out of the box thinker" would imply someone who does things differently. there's also a positive connotation to the term -- if you do things differently but in a stupid way, you're just an idiot, not out of the box. so using sporks might be different, but not necessarily advantageous enough to be deemed "out of the box."

personally, i'm a very in the box thinker. i need to connect the dots, i need to follow bread crumbs, i need to process things very linearly. there are no wild innovations coming from my end. i work with what i see and what i know. i'm squarely in the box.

so i'm trying to think of people who are totally out of the box. people who amaze with their crazy take on how to do something. but i can't really think of anybody. most of the people who strike me as almost out of the box thinkers are just importing ideas from another genre. is mixing and matching out of the box? is applying a fresh coat of paint to something out of the box?

do i not know any out of the box people because i'm too in the box to accept something out of the box? maybe i need to expand my search to famous people, because clearly there are lots of famous people who are affixed with the term "out of the box." is it depressing that i don't personally know any out of the box people?

or am i just depressed about being unoriginal?