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Can you think outside the box?
Think outside the box.
You have heard the phrase “think outside the box”; This metaphor means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new and fresh perspective.  I love thinking outside the box.  In real estate sometimes creative solutions are the only way to bring our clients to a successful end.  Sometimes the most impossible scenarios are easily made possible with a little creativity.
The phrase was used heavily in the business world since the 70’s to inspire creative thinking. If you think about it most great accomplishments, innovations and inventions would have never come to pass without new and creative “outside-the-box” thinking.
The origin of “thinking outside the box”, traces back to the 1960s and the use of the “9 dots” puzzle, which was originally published in 1914 in a book called the Cyclopedia of Puzzles by Sam Lloyd. The puzzle entitled Columbus’ egg puzzle consisted of the following diagram and the instructions: Link all 9 dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen and without tracing the same line more than once.
Go ahead and print that out and give it a try. What you’ll eventually is that you’re going to have to think “outside the box” to ... more

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