영어1 지학 신상근 5과 본문 빈칸 퀴즈

Lesson 5 Unlock Your Original Thinking

Out of the Box with Original Thinking

Original thinking is the ability ____ think outside the box, to look at a problem, and to figure out a new, creative solution for it.

Many people choose to ____ follow the path others have already paved, but it is difficult to achieve something exceptional in this way.

More often those who think differently achieve lasting success ____ to address the challenges of tomorrow, it’s essential to adopt a fresh approach distinct from yesterday.

So, how can ____ cultivate original thinking that leads to outstanding achievements?

Generate ____ Lot of Ideas

If you want to have good ideas, you must have ____ ideas.

Traditionally, people follow the ____ that they prefer “quality over quantity.”

However, in the case of ____ quantity and quality are equally important.

____ creative individuals do not actually produce better ideas than average ones.

____ they produce more ideas.

Their increased idea output means that they are more likely to hit ____ something brilliant.

An excellent example is ____ Picasso. Picasso is famous for a handful of artworks.

However, ____ people realize that Picasso’s portfolio includes 2,800 ceramics, 1,800 paintings, 1,200 sculptures, and more than 12,000 drawings.

Again, only a fraction of them ____ famous.

Likewise, Mozart composed over 600 pieces before his death at age 35, only a handful of which are recognized as particularly ____

Einstein also had more than 248 publications, but many of ____ didn’t have much impact.

The lesson here is to produce a large volume ____ work.

This way, you have more of a ____ that one or two will be outstanding.

Just pour out whatever comes to mind and ____ the gems from the rocks.


Don’t Rush

We ____ frequently told that procrastination is our worst enemy.

Almost every self-help book describes successful people ____ being those who can overcome procrastination.

However, several ____ of genius have stemmed from procrastination.

Great originals know how to utilize procrastination as a strategy in ____ idea production.

Procrastination encourages ____ progress rather than rapid progress, which leaves your brain open to a wider range of ideas.

While ____ may be the enemy of productivity, it can be a resource for creativity.

Few people know that Leondardo da Vinci was a ____ procrastinator.

____ took him 16 years to complete the Mona Lisa.

Some of the things that took his attention away from work, like learning optics, ____ the way he modeled light and made him into a much better painter.

What about Martin Luther King, ____

The original script of his speech, believe it or ____ didn’t contain the words “I have a dream.”

The night before the biggest speech of his life, he was up past 3 a.m. rewriting ____ script.

____ was sitting in the audience waiting for his turn to go onto the stage and still writing notes on his script.

After he got on stage, 11 minutes ____ he heard Mahalia Jackson, his favorite singer, cry out: “Tell them about the dream, Martin.”

Encouraged by a shout from the audience, ____ drew upon some of his past talks, and the result became the landmark speech “I have a dream.”

By delaying the task of finalizing the speech until the very last minute, he left himself open to the ____ range of possible ideas.

The text wasn’t set in ____ and he had the freedom to improvise.


Fight the Status Quo

The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and ____ out if a better option exists.

Your ability to do things differently, to question and refine the way things work ____ what makes you creative and different.

Your Internet browser is a ____ Change it! You don’t like the system?

Say so! You have a new ____ Try it! You see a better way of doing things?

Test it! Most people won’t ____ any risk.

They’ll just stick with what they know, thinking it’ll ____ good enough.

But if you think that you can change things, then your originality ____ your creativity could make a big difference in the end.

The founders of an ____ eyewear company, for instance, couldn’t understand why it was so hard to find an affordable pair of glasses.

____ thought the problem was interesting, so they conducted some research.

They found that ____ one company dominated 80% of the market.

As a result, they created a company that ____ one expected to thrive.

Instead of depending on only physical stores where customers ____ try the eyeglasses on directly, they created a business where you could simply order inexpensive, high-quality eyewear online.

Using this business model, they were able to offer glasses that normally cost ____ for only $95.

____ addition, every time a customer purchased glasses from them, they’d make a donation to charities.

All of this was possible ____ they sold on the Internet.

The online eyewear company has, ____ a doubt, been successful.

It was voted ____ the most innovative business by a world-leading business magazine.

The company grew to be worth more than a ____ dollars.

Anyone could have noticed the problem with expensive glasses in stores, but it ____ courageous pioneers to find the answers.

____ and systems are made by people.

This means they can be changed by people ____ well.

It’s a good ____ to challenge the defaults.

We often believe that original insight is primarily a matter of nature: ____ are either born with it, or you aren’t.

But from ____ different perspective, it can be nurtured.

The above stories, however, show that original thinking can be improved through ____ effort.

It turns out ____ we are all original thinkers in process.


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