It’s an ideal, and like any ideal we manage to capture in a six-letter word, 99% will get it completely backwards. For example, everyone knows and agrees with

It’s an ideal, and like any ideal we manage to capture in a six-letter word, 99% will get it completely backwards. For example, everyone knows and agrees with the value of the phrase “think outside the box,” but only a minority ever recognizes “the box” they should be thinking outside of, and even fewer bother to fully apply the wisdom by making a habit out of finding the box that’s currently holding them at any given moment.