Think Out of The Box Quotes

“The Focusing Question is: “What is the one thing that I can do, such that by doing that thing, all other things become either very easy or become unnecessary”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, once said, “We run this company on questions, not answers.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“When you know that you are certain, you don’t explore much, but when you invite uncertainty in your life, you want to come out with better ideas.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Great innovators always ask questions and a variety of questions every time they encounter some problem or challenge. It’s the quality of question that determines the quality of life. Questions cause you to stretch, grow, and think beyond what’s real on the ground and activate your imagination.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Questions. Questions. Questions = Ideas. Ideas and Ideas”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Therefore, you need to start doubting the assumptions more often to trigger a challenge in your mind to do better.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Doubting the default is the first step in innovating things. If you are already fine with whatever is there, then you’d never think of ways to improve it.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“You can question that what if someone finishes their work in 4 hours, then why shouldn’t they be allowed to spend their time meeting someone out of office, or attend some event or program or meet new people, that can bring more business to the organization?”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“But have you ever asked why each employee needed to spend the same amount of hours at work? You”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“You need to develop the habits of questioning the assumption. The common assumption is that every employee needs to be at work for 8 hours.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“In order to be more creative and generate a new set of ideas: You should start doubting any and all kind of default settings as the only way to go for.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Idea doubt- In this approach, you make it more interesting, you take this as a challenge and try to find out the real solutions by doubting the validity of the idea.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“There could be two types of doubts: Self-Doubt – It is paralyzing, because you get demoralized and don’t take any action.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“The item being manufactured would travel to the skilled worker through the assembly line, and that itself revolutionized the productivity and speed of the manufacturing process manifold while saving time, energy, and efforts of the manual workers.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Take another example. There was an assumption in the industrial age that the manual workers need to travel physically to the respective processes used in heavy machinery, and vice versa was not possible. But Henry Ford doubted this assumption and the result was the invention of the assembly line in the automobile industry.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Edison believed that anyone who wants to invent things should have the ability to doubt the default. In his view, if someone already assumed that the soup didn’t have salt in it, they didn’t question or test the assumption before taking further action.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“He outrightly rejected those candidates who sprinkled salt in the soup without testing it.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Doubt Every Default or Assumption”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“In the previous chapter, you learned many ways to think out of the box. I hope you have found them useful and try to implement them in your life. Now let’s continue to explore a few more strategies that can help boost your creativity enough.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“By always getting engaged in something puts your other network i.e., Active Network, in continuous mode, and not let DMN offer you the required insights generated by imagination. Therefore, make boredom a part of your life.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Use Boredom to Invite Brilliance: Getting bored means to not get continuously driven by your frequent cravings and getting distracted often. If you are not doing anything, you’ll feel bored. But the benefit of getting bored is it activates your default mode network (DMN) i.e., imagination network of your brain.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Set a Daily quota for generating ideas:”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Use SCAMPER Method. This method equips you with 7 different ways you could ask questions from yourself. SCAMPER is an acronym, and each letter gives you a specific way to ask a question to generate ideas. It means: S = Substitute something C =Combine it with something else A = Adapt something to it M = Modify or Magnify it P = Put it to some different use E = Eliminate something R = Reverse Engineer it.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Slow Multi-tasking improves creativity. You should not switch between different tasks in your day to day work, but you should get yourself involved and working on different projects simultaneously.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Use Idea Fusion:”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Feed your head with a variety of information as a base before you can generate ideas.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Therefore, you need to embrace boredom to let a new space form in your mind, where ideas can germinate, flourish, and soon you will start loving this boredom more and more.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“To help you smooth the transitioning process, keep a journal with you, where you can scribble anything. Just write whatever comes to your mind. Allow the different thoughts to pop up.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Therefore, the strategy here is to get ready for boredom for sometime during the day.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top

“Netflix stated its biggest competitors are Facebook, YouTube, and sleep.”
― Som Bathla, Think Out of The Box: Generate Ideas on Demand, Improve Problem Solving, Make Better Decisions, and Start Thinking Your Way to the Top