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Why We Should Think Out Of The Box

Thinking outside of boxes isn't that hard

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Why We Should Think Out Of The Box

I am a dreamer. Always have been, and hopefully always will be. If someone tells me something is impossible, I like to laugh to myself and try to make it possible. If someone says my dreams are too big, I dream it a whole lot bigger and plan different ways that I can reach that dream. It’s hard to be an out of box thinker in an in box thinking world. People want to the known, same old same old, not trying anything new because it could cost them money or a job. People are afraid to dream big because if they fail people may just bring up their failures and never let them try again. However like many great out of box thinkers, you can reach your dream even with failure, if people didn't dream higher than what they could or do, we would still be living in caves.

Some of the greatest human minds were the ones the ones that dream higher then what people tell them they can reach. The Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, Madam C.J. Walker the list can go on and on. People who dream the biggest will usually be the ones that get the most out of life because they know that they never reach the finish line until they die that there really is no perfect end goal, they can find away to make the world a better place to help us move forward when someone would rather move back.

I know that sometimes while people look down at my dreams now, I will one day come out on top for being someone who looked at a simple box and didn't just see what people said that it was, but saw it as what it could become and worked on it to become that thing. Normal people look at the impossible and try to make it practical, abnormal people see the practical and make it impossible.

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