Think Out of The Box Quotes

“The social media and video platform are being designed with a mission to glue your attention to them almost all the time.”
― 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

“If you keep on switching from one distraction to another, you are using up the glucose of your brain very fast. Glucose is the energy – the willpower of your mind.”
― 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 a nutshell, our minds are constantly in switch mode. Neuroscientist, Dr. Daniel Levitin, said that shifting your attention from one work to another – requires the brain to do a neurochemical switch that uses up the nutrients in the 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

“But the irony is that the modern technology doesn’t leave any scope for any of us to get bored, as compared to even one generation before, who didn’t have their eyes consistently glued to their smartphones.”
― 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

“DMN is called the imagination network of the 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

“Neuroscientists and psychologists have been doing their research on the subject, and they discovered that while we are getting bored, it activates the default mode network of the brain. In fact, there are two different types of network in the brain: Active Network Default Mode Network (DMN)”
― 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

“shows that the best ideas often come to us while doing nothing and just letting the mind reel and think whatever comes. In other words, big ideas pop up out of boredom.”
― 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 world of creativity, the greater the number of ideas, the better your choice will be. Quantity of ideas will lead to quality of 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

“As I emphasized in the previous section, you need to have a clear problem and convert it into a challenge before you can invite new ideas. Therefore, the kind of ideas should be related to your core problems.”
― 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

“Become an Idea Machine- Set up Daily Idea Quota”
― 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

“Now, once you have listed some projects, take a few different color markers or pens and start highlighting with different colors with different categories,”
― 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

“Your contribution to the society Physical Health. Children growth-related projects Your long desires for creating something that will contribute to the world. And many more, as you can think of.”
― 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

“Now, you need to draw a mind map of different projects branching out from the center in a way that you could draw out various sub-branches as well. For example, your branches could be:”
― 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

“An hour worth of walk is something that will sweat you out physically and stretch you mentally as well.”
― 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

“During your walking session, keep walking and think about the projects that you started earlier in life, but quitted sooner without giving your full shot to those projects.”
― 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

“How should you apply this technique to 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

“You never know when you get excited about a different thing in your life, and then those creative insights sparked through you will turn out to be a treasure.”
― 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, if we want to do something in a much better way, we should often get disconnected with the main project for some time.”
― 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

“Also, if you can learn to do one thing well, it helps you to do other things also well.”
― 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

“Also, this type of slow multi-tasking is like cross training of our mind.”
― 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

“Switching between different projects slowly satisfies the need of novelty for the human 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

“Here are the reasons: It helps them keep working on other projects if they get stuck in one project, and that way, they keep making progress in another project.”
― 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

“how does slow multi-tasking helps get more done?”
― 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. Michael Crichton, the director and producer of movie Jurassic Park, worked on the movie and alongside that, he wrote novels and one more non-fiction book. What’s happening here?”
― 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

“fact, Einstein always kept working on different types of projects at the same time. He used to start multiple projects as they came to his mind. However, he worked long enough on one project and then used to take a break from one project and then started to work on a different project.”
― 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 is a different type of multi-tasking that is in fact recommended when it comes to giving space to let the creative thinking emerge.”
― 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

“How Multi-tasking This Way Improves Creativity”
― 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

“Now, take any one stage of your important project and apply each of the SCAMPER questions on that step, and keep noting down different ideas on your note pad or laptop.”
― 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

“After you have finalized the project, divide the project into as many small steps as it makes sense to do in a way that each step can be ascertained separately.”
― 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

“How to implement SCAMPER in your personal or work 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