In New York you can gaze up at the towering skyscrapers or...

You can sunbathe on top of one.

In LA you can catch a neon lit rollercoaster ride on Landon Monica Pier.

Before catching a California catfish off Santa Monica Pier.

Oop!

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but how you see them is up to you.

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Thinking outside the box, you've all been asked to do this at one point or another.

In most cases the request was made by a teacher.

Perhaps a hip cool...

How do you do fellow kids, kind of teacher, who wants you to think creatively?

But only if your creative thinking aligns with whatever slightly unorthodox method he's trying to teach.

But of course you just want the lesson to end.

So you make half-hearted guesses.

And when he shoots those down, you stare at him, blank-faced, unchanged, and uninterested.

Until he reverts to the original proper lesson plan.

For taking his attempt to teach you a concept or method that wasn't any better than the original way, just different from it.

Outside of the box thinking generally isn't any better than in the box thinking, at least for me.

I've stood outside the box, I've scaled, it's surfaced, measured, it's dimensions, and I gotta say, the exterior isn't all that great.

Its surfaces aren't especially conductive or higher thought.

More abstract thought maybe, but who's to say abstraction is inherently superior.

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