blue-sky thinking
BLOO SKY THINK-ing
bluː skaɪ ˈθɪŋkɪŋListen
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creative or visionary thinking unconstrained by practical, budgetary, or conventional limitations — open-minded ideation that imagines what might be possible without being immediately anchored to what is currently feasible; the metaphor of the open, limitless blue sky suggests a mental space free from the clouds of pragmatic restriction; blue-sky thinking is valued in research, design, and innovation contexts as a complement to incremental problem-solving, providing the conceptual raw material from which breakthrough ideas eventually emerge; critics note that blue-sky thinking can become an excuse for impractical fantasising disconnected from the constraints that ultimately determine which ideas become reality
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