Thinking out of the box

Do you ever tire of listening to people regurgitate the words "Thinking out of the box" where their mantra is a reproduction of Robert Kennedy's words "There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

By the way, RFK's words were not originals since George Bernard Shaw's "You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" were immortalised in his book "Back to Methuselah" published more than 20 years before RFK was even born.

See a pattern now?

People just love to quote lofty words, thinking that if they did it often enough, they'll actually be "thinking out of the box". And honestly, there's nothing that these people whom I've come across have anything new to offer, except a copy of another idea that's already out there, however repackaged.

For one to really be creating new ideas and thoughts, he/she has to be able to visualise things that are not yet seen and not just to ask "why not?". Now, that's real creativity that's not regurgitated.

That's originality!