{"id":4226,"date":"2012-04-10T01:45:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2012-04-10T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T18:00:08","slug":"thinking-outside-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4226","title":{"rendered":"Thinking outside the box"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Bhutan, one of the poorest nations in the world, gave the world the revolutionary Gross National Happiness (GNH) index to determine the country&#8217;s growth instead of using the conventional GDP like all the other countries in the world. Now, almost everyone i know wants to visit Bhutan! LOL! <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The ability to think outside the box can lead to breakthroughs in mindsets, business ideas, ideological beliefs etc. but because most people are steeped in conventional thinking, it is not easy to think differently from the majority and anyway, life goes on with conventional thinking&#8230;..hence, my interest in thinking outside the box is only a personal challenge and Bhutan&#8217;s GNH creation is profound (to me).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This question is just for academic discussion: Can thinking outside the box be nurtured? If yes, how can it be nurtured? <br \/><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Constructive comments and feedback are welcome :)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhutan, one of the poorest nations in the world, gave the world the revolutionary Gross National Happiness (GNH) index to determine the country&#8217;s growth instead of using the conventional GDP like all the other countries in the world. Now, almost everyone i know wants to visit Bhutan! LOL! The ability to think outside the box &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thinking outside the box&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}