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Thinking outside Your Galaxy 109

outside the center box
here to represent this bit
of data that has nothing
to do with your field.
Name something else
that has nothing to do
with your field. Any-
thing. Again, put a dot
outside the center box
representing that dis-
jointed bit of data.
If you wanted to take
Inside the box.
the time to record every
bit of data that you know
that has nothing to do
with your field, you’d do
a pretty good job clutter-
ing the void outside your
box, which then might
look something like what
you see here on the right.
Everything you know
that has nothing to do
with your business is out-
side the box. As is every-
Outside the box.
thing you don’t know,
along with everything no one knows yet. See where we’re headed? Who
says you don’t think outside the box? You do it every day when you’re
not thinking about the things in your field.

THINKING OUTSIDE YOUR GALAXY

Take away the box and what do you have? See the next page. With a
little imagination, it kind of looks like a galaxy in outer space. Why
think outside the box when you can think outside the galaxy?
Imagine if you plotted the vast universe of ideas on an immense
chart, with all the knowledge, data, and theories that have ever been
entertained by the human mind since the beginning of time repre-
sented by stars. The chart might become an enormous star field, right?
Now imagine that these twinkling bits of data are arranged according