The hardest part about thinking outside the box is the box

 

How do you know your box?

Where does it begin and where does it end?

 

How do you know you escaped the box?

What’s if you’re merely in the compartment of the box with “unconventional” written over it?

You’re still in the fucking box

 

And then there’s the significant problem that you actually really like your box

It’s your familiar space

Safe space

It gives you frames from which you can effectively operate

 

And so it happens you set about doing something creative, with this little mantra of “thinking outside the box”

and you go to this part of the box which smells a little less conventional

and perhaps there’s enough inspiration in there to propel you

or perhaps not

either way you’re still in the box

 

So if you find yourself in that situation

just understand that to leave the box — you have to leave the fucking box

that means abandoning, temporarily or not, your methods and crutches and procedures

this doesn’t merely imply little discomfort and instability

it also implies INFERIOR RESULTS

that is the part often overlooked

you want to elevate your creativity, your design,

but you don’t want to make it worse!

you want to make it better; you want more inspiration so that it is more inspired; so that you innovate and improve and expand

but you don’t understand that to move forward you have to move back,

to be free you have to give up,

 

just keep this trade in mind

you want a real breakthrough?

let go of GOOD RESULTS

prepare yourself to FAIL

that is the meaning of EXPERIMENTATION

 

and be vigilant of yourself falling into this trap,

be vigilant of stagnating

I believe the problem with stagnating is not the unwillingness to progress — but the unwillingness to REGRESS

But this regress is necessary

 

Don’t EVER get attached to nothing

Your possessions are the least of this problem of attachment — it’s your psychological addictions

Such as your marriage to your reputation

Such as your love affair with your narrow area of competence

LET GO of all that

fuck the box

 

also

don’t view this text as mere theorising, a fancy-sounding pep-talk

it’s easy to abstractly rant about “THE NEW”, the beyond, the esoteric…

I write this text as a reminder to MYSELF,

we get so attached to growing

what a fucking poison

we expect results

and we cease exploring

or we doubt ourselves

but there’s naugh to doubt

you go into the UNKNOWN in order to escape the known

you BURN THE BOX

you don’t EXPECT your well-known, consistent, pretty little GOOD RESULTS THERE,

your GOOD RESULTS stayed in the box

stayed in the known and boring PAST

now you’re looking for more

you’re looking for SHIT RESULTS

and you’re looking for EXCELLENCE

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