Challenging, is, by definition, the antithesis of stagnation, since it’s a very active process. It takes energy, thought, questioning, and as you state, testing, to challenge an idea.

There can be good and bad in any idea, whether new or old, inside-the-box or outside-the-box. Many inside-the-box ideas are tried and true; yet who knows how much these could be improved if the right questions are asked and the right avenues explored?

And when new ideas come, who can know how reliable they’ll ultimately prove to be without sufficient testing and experimenting? In fact, who’s to say that a combination of the new and the old won’t be the best choice? Maybe it would be best to simply ignore the box completely!

Jeanne

I thing you’ve got a timely idea here; one that flies in the face of conventional wisdom. In other words, an out-of-the-box idea if there ever was one!