Chances are, if the given problem was developed within a box, you won’t find the solution there.

What you need are different perspectives out of and around the box, above and below it, and perhaps inside other boxes.

Here are several products. Their greatest value to problem-solving was not realized (in most cases) until long after they were invented.

2. Quinine

3. X-rays

4. Radioactivity

5. The fastening system that we know by the brand name “Velcro”

6. Sweet’N Low

8. LSD

9. Play-doh

10. Penicillin

11. Viagra

13. Vulcanized Rubber

14. Corn Flakes

15. Teflon

16. Super Glue

17. Safety glass used in windshields

18. Vaseline

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Please click here to learn more about each.

And keep in mind that ducklings and cygnets are never viewed as “ugly” by other ducks and swans.

Beauty really is in the eyes of the beholder.

That is especially true of solutions to problems.