Thinking out of the box for demo

"Seeing the big picture" and "Thinking out the box" are the main qualities that are regarded by the companies today. It is somehow a cliche that is used by the advertising campaigns of many consulting companies : they say "our consultants think out of the box" even though they come from the same business school and are left-brain-minded like the others. Nevertheless it's important to think differently sometimes and to be able seeing in other direction when you have on your hand a tricky software demonstration to prepare. So let's revisit the famous nine-dot puzzle i read today about in the Benjamin Zander's book "the art of possibility" As you may or may not know the puzzle asks us to join all nine dots with four straight lines, without taking pen from paper. So go ahead and have a try at it :

If you have never done it before Benjamin Zander explains that you are going to have an hard time solving this problem because your will probably classify this nine dots as a a square even though there is no box or square at at all in this page. Unconsciously you will create a square in your mind and therefore you will miss some others possibilities. It is likely that your brain will add another not relevant instruction to the original problem that is "join all nine dots with four straight lines, without taking pen from paper within the square formed by the outer dots"

And, unfortunately there is no solution within this framework. However, we can now help you by saying this additional comment "Feel free to use the whole sheet of paper" and now you can see the same problem through new eyes and a new possibility !!!So have a try again and keep in mind to use all the space, you get it ? congratulations ! here you will get the solution :

thinking out of the boxes

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Mostly the reason why we fail to solve a problem it that we try to solve it within a particular frame or point of view :
" Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish while new opportunities appear" Benjamin Zander

So you know what i learnt at reading the book "The art of possibility", additionally I encourage you too to watch below the benjamin Zander presentation that i got from the presentationzen blog