I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Memory feeds imagination.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.