Thinking outside the cliches

“Thinking outside the box” is one of my least favourite cliches, so when I came across Joyce Wycoff’s “whimsical journey” (her words) to find a replacement, I thought it was worth posting.

From the 125 suggestions, these are the top 4:

There is no box

Escape the matrix

Spark the gap

Thinking past the horizon

I’m not sure that any of them are actually a huge improvement, although the last one does at least have the advantage of being least of a cliche. I’ll be adding them to the Buzzword Bingo card, and waiting to see how long any of them take to appear in a Dilbert strip…!

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