the self-assigned borders of thinking

Design is a creative business. And as a creative business it demands open thinking in different directions. This is already quite difficult for people without any obvious inner regualtion and rule catalogue. But it becomes even more complicated, if people stick to a certain way of thinking with embedded do’s and do not’s.

As for the fact that his way of thinking was taught to children since the very beginning, it is not possible for the upgrown child, to think outside of these borders. The regulations fulfill themselves only by preventing the thinker to think about them. They are just given and used intuitvely.

An open mind needs the possibility to move everythere and and to connect to everything. This is the idea of creativity and this process normally generates the best outcome. If the thinker has some forbidden areas in the mind, the process turns out to become less intuiutive and more complicated.

Humans are not free. The only thing that gives them a certain freedom is the content of the brain and the ways, how this content is used. The mind content does not grow in the brain but the mind has the ability to connect content.The Freedom human can achieve needs content. This Freedom needs knowledge.

On the other hand each thought is already defined by language and brain structure. Humans can never think out of this structure. This is one of the necessary restrictions of thinking. Without any restrictions it is random thought which will lead to nothing but confusion. Lucky are the ones who are able to change the starting ramp of their thoughts and to adjust the perspective.

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