????5. 從收發(fā)室借一個(gè)大紙板箱

????如果你想鼓勵(lì)人們“跳出固有模式”進(jìn)行思考，找一個(gè)大紙板箱讓他們坐在外面，確實(shí)會(huì)有幫助。

????這是新加坡管理大學(xué)（Singapore Management University）安吉拉?梁和同事們?cè)趲啄昵暗难芯拷Y(jié)果。他們給參與者安排各種需要?jiǎng)?chuàng)造性思維的挑戰(zhàn)，要求他們表演出各種比喻。有的人坐在五立方英尺的紙板箱里面或外面。有的人拿到兩個(gè)一半的杯墊，并被要求“根據(jù)事實(shí)做出推理”。

????結(jié)論：那些表演出比喻的參與者，在開(kāi)發(fā)創(chuàng)造性解決方案的時(shí)候表現(xiàn)得更加出色。

????沒(méi)錯(cuò)，聽(tīng)起來(lái)像是電視劇《辦公室》（The Office）里面的一個(gè)場(chǎng)景。

????凡是能讓人們跳出常規(guī)套路和環(huán)境的事情，都能打破他們的慣性思維。只要你允許每個(gè)人與眾不同，他們就會(huì)有不同的思維模式。

????如果坐在盒子外面這樣的做法不太可行，梁發(fā)現(xiàn)，讓人們走出“呆伯特的小隔間”，也能起到類(lèi)似的效果。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

????譯者：劉進(jìn)龍/汪皓

????5. Borrow a big cardboard box from the mail room

????If you want to encourage people to think “outside the box,” it can actually help to get a big cardboard box and then make them sit outside of it.

????That’s what Angela Leung of Singapore Management University and fellow researchers found a few years ago . While giving participants various challenges that required creative thinking, they made them act out various metaphors. Some sat inside or outside a five square-foot cardboard box. Some were given two halves of a coaster and asked to “put two and two together.” And so on.

????Bottom line: Those acting out a metaphor tended to do better at developing creative solutions.

????Yes, it sounds like an episode from “The Office.”

????But anything that gets people out of their usual routine and environment is likely to break up conventional thinking. If you give people license to be different, they are more likely to think differently.

????If sitting outside a box seems a step too far, Leung notes that just getting people out of their “Dilbert cubicles” is a step in the right direction.