{"id":795,"date":"2011-02-24T07:07:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T13:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=795"},"modified":"2011-02-24T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T13:12:08","slug":"outside-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"Outside the Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<em>Thinking outside the box<\/em>\u201d, is a phrase supposedly derived from a puzzle created by an early 20th-century British mathematician.  It can sometimes refer to taking or borrowing a well known concept or idea and applying it in a unique way.  The key is application.<\/p>\n<p>Example, a composer named Steve Reich came up with a new idea called \u201cphasing\u201d, while driving to work.  Apparently, he was caught in a traffic jam one rainy day and the rhythm of the windshield wipers caught his attention, and he applied what he heard to his musical compositions.  I am told he has had a significant influence on contemporary music, and he is just one of many examples of how \u201cnew\u201d ideas can come from something as mundane and functional as your windshield wipers.                <\/p>\n<p>Of course he was at first ridiculed, belittled and berated for his new way of composing music.  How dare he disrupt the \u201cstandard\u201d!!  Such is the journey of the innovator.  Original ideas often mean going against the tide, which often is a long and rocky road.  The easy way to go is often the well worn path to mediocrity.  And as we\u2019ve heard;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>A man who compromises his ideas and principles is destined for a life of mediocrity.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You and I are unique individuals.  The world is rich and ripe with originality.  So let\u2019s go out there today and keep our brain turned on and our senses and hearts open to seeing simple things in a new way.<\/p>\n<p>What if you could?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThinking outside the box\u201d, is a phrase supposedly derived from a puzzle created by an early 20th-century British mathematician. It can sometimes refer to taking or borrowing a well known concept or idea and applying it in a unique way. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=795\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,153,31],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-postaday2011","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}