Even though this is a cliche, I think it really is a “matter of how you look at it.”

In the broad scope of thinking, most everything really is tied together somehow.

If one can take a subject, which at the very basic level is uninteresting, and find a way to connect that with something which is highly interesting, then I think a happy motivation to achieve that otherwise uninspired purpose can be achieved.

Also, I believe “thinking out of the box” with some things leaves too much out in the open, thus no focus or vision can be achieved and a project loses it original flare. Better to assign some type of boundaries.