Once a sage gave an assignment on creative thinking to his students. The sage gave them a sieve and asked them to fill it with water at the sea, nearby.
They were gone for a long time. Finally he went down to the beach to see what they were doing, and found them seated morosely around the sieve.
They scrambled to their feet when they saw him.
“You’ve set us an impossible task, sir,” said the oldest of the disciples. “It’s just not possible to fill a sieve with full of water.”
“Are you sure?” asked the sage, picking up the sieve. “Sometimes it helps to step back and view the problem from a different angle.”
He threw the sieve far out into the sea. It sank.
“There!” said the Teacher. “It’s full of water now.”
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
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