You and I have heard, think out of the box. People have been doing this sense man has been around, especially the successful. If you follow the crowd, you’ll be just like the masses. If we want more out of life we need to find ideas that haven’t been used or are changed in some way thus they look new.
When you come up with new out of the box ideas many people don’t always get too excited out them. As time passes and the ideas catches on, that is the test if the ideas has merit.
There are so many people that have been very successful in life by using out of the box thinking. My grandfather and my Dad were two of those who were out the box thinker and I’ll tell you about them are a later date. For now I’ll tell you the story about Henry Ford.
Ford started and lost a couple of business around the start of the nineteen hundreds. That did not stop him. He finally found the right combination and started build the Model T. It was a home run. Like all business, that started and grew at a rapid pace there were a myriad of problems.
One major problem was car sales were very cycle, sales were slow in summers and very brisk in the winter. Ford had an idea to hire famers, which were in great supply around Detroit. They were industrious and hard working, but had to tend to their farm in the spring and summer. Ford’s ideas were to hire them in the fall and winter and to attract them he would offer them five dollars a day. Industry thought he was crazy and they were also upset because it was way over the present wages paid.
His ideas worked so now Ford could make cars in the winter when cars were being sold and not making them in the summer when they were not being sold.
Sound pretty simple and it was and that is the way of many out of the box ideas.
What is the old saying, “Keep it Simple Stupid”
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