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Are You Trapped in Your Own Thinking? Einstein, Torah, and Breaking Out of the Box
Are you actually thinking freely—or just repeating patterns you’ve carried since childhood?
In this episode of Toward a Meaningful Life Podcast, David Cohen and Levi Goldstein unpack a powerful teaching from Rabbi Simon Jacobson on what it truly means to “think outside the box.” Inspired by Einstein’s insight that you can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created it, this conversation explores how our assumptions, biases, and so-called “common sense” may be the very things holding us back.
Why is real innovation so rare?
What is your “box”—and do you even know it exists?
And how…
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