Out of the box thinking ?
I've always suspected that my thinking is not very out of the box. I just take in all inputs, and either let my imagination run wild, or ask myself a question and pick the _first_ answer that comes up. I've to often ask myself the question again and again because rational thinking sometimes dismisses that _first_ answer which is more often than not the best way out of a given problem.
It's Sunday afternoon, I'm planning my trip to Monterey Bay, and the hotels there seem expensive. And even though Monterey is just three hours away by drive, I've to run around trying to get a Greyhound schedule in place. And Greyhound doesn't go up to Monterey Bay, it only goes up to Selenus. Plus, I've to travel back to where I'm staying which is about 45 minutes away from san Francisco.
For some time, I was busy wondering which bus to take such that I reach Selenus late at night, stay over night at some budget place, and then take the morning whale watching trip. The receptionist at the Monterey Bay Whale watch told me that I could also spend the day at Monterey after the whale watching trip - visit places, spend time at the aquarium, etc and then leave for SFO on Wednesday morning.
Since I absolutely _must_ watch whales, I resigned myself to spending about 350 USD for a meagre two nights :(
Some minutes later, I had a new idea - why not reach Monterey a day _earlier_ sometime during the morning, spend the day there sightseeing _and_ hunting for budget places for the night, go whale watching the next day, and then take the afternoon bus back to San Francisco !
I've not done such thingking in a long time, if ever. I wonder what such thinking is called. I'm sure there must be a variety of thinking processes - after all my kind of thinking is what lets me survive among highly educated programmers at my workplace (and excel at my own work).
It's Sunday afternoon, I'm planning my trip to Monterey Bay, and the hotels there seem expensive. And even though Monterey is just three hours away by drive, I've to run around trying to get a Greyhound schedule in place. And Greyhound doesn't go up to Monterey Bay, it only goes up to Selenus. Plus, I've to travel back to where I'm staying which is about 45 minutes away from san Francisco.
For some time, I was busy wondering which bus to take such that I reach Selenus late at night, stay over night at some budget place, and then take the morning whale watching trip. The receptionist at the Monterey Bay Whale watch told me that I could also spend the day at Monterey after the whale watching trip - visit places, spend time at the aquarium, etc and then leave for SFO on Wednesday morning.
Since I absolutely _must_ watch whales, I resigned myself to spending about 350 USD for a meagre two nights :(
Some minutes later, I had a new idea - why not reach Monterey a day _earlier_ sometime during the morning, spend the day there sightseeing _and_ hunting for budget places for the night, go whale watching the next day, and then take the afternoon bus back to San Francisco !
I've not done such thingking in a long time, if ever. I wonder what such thinking is called. I'm sure there must be a variety of thinking processes - after all my kind of thinking is what lets me survive among highly educated programmers at my workplace (and excel at my own work).