blue-sky thinking

Blue-sky thinking refers to ideas that are not limited by the current beliefs or norms of a group or society.

Blue-sky thinking can be ideas that are creative or whimsical and maybe even bizarre. Such thinking might lead to just the solution you need. Or it might lead to something that doesn’t work at all. Because blue-sky thinking results in ideas so different from ideas built on common beliefs or experience, you won’t know the outcome until you try them. Blue-sky thinking can be an important part of coming up with something new and unconventional.

Blue-sky thinking might also be described as thinking outside the box, especially in business.��

Example: We’ve been so focused on balancing the budget that we haven’t had time for any blue-sky thinking.

The first records of the term blue-sky thinking are unknown. It combines the term blue-sky, meaning “fanciful or impractical,” with thinking, meaning “thought or judgment.”

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• fanciful thinking
• outside-the-box thinking

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• blue-sky
• blue-sky law
• thinking
• thinking cap

������ are some words that often get used in discussing blue-sky thinking?

• business
• inspiration
• unrestricted

Blue-sky thinking is used to describe thinking that may be impractical, unconventional, or inspirational.

Dear Parcel Delivery Companies,

Here's a novel idea. How about you read the address and deliver the parcel? I know it sounds like a crazy, outside-the-box, blue-sky thinking, nutty idea, but i really think there's a gap in the market for a company that just delivers the parcel

— Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera (@PantiBliss)

Blue-sky thinking is best done under a blue sky. Seriously. Running can increase cognitive flexibility, so inspiration can flow

— Brooks Running (@brooksrunning)

Landing on the hard reality that life isn't always fair doesn't have to suffocate blue-sky thinking because there's plenty of "dreaming air"

— Mark Chironna (@markchironna)

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Is blue-sky thinking used correctly in the following sentence?

“Since our usual solutions aren’t working, it’s time for some blue-sky thinking.”