Do you suspect that youOCOve been running on intellectual and creative autopilot for a while? Do you ever wish you could be more creative every day (and not just when youOCOre in the zone and working on it)? Are you fed up with watching people around you come up with innovative ideas and brilliant solutions and getting all the credit? Look no further; in thirty practical and down to earth chapters this book will show you: How to learn, learn and learn again; quick tricks to spark ideas and free your mind; ways to keep track of your great ideas; how to map your creative concepts; what you can do with a great mistake. With quizzes, helpful question and answer sections and tips from creative geniuses such as Steve Jobs, Anita Roddick and Vivienne Westwood, this lovely book will help you to make the most of your mental powers. If you want to squeeze a little more juice out of your brain and make a real difference, this is the book for you."
Wasn't at all impressed. Not a memorable read , but definitely not a time pass. It has listed out many practices which are already well known. In some places , i felt like am reading a blog. It's more like a collection of good articles rather than a collection of related chapters.
Some good advice but it wasn’t what I was looking for out of this book. I will read additional suggested booked mentioned here and see if it will guide me to where I want to end up
I took my time with this book. It seemed to offer sound, practical advice at first, with the tone reading like your mom talking to you at the dinner table... Then, I got to the chapter on boosting brain performance, and guess what the book recommends? Taking drugs. Yes, I kid you not. It specifically recommends modafinil, which is a drug approved for the treatment of narcolepsy. I looked it up - it's a prescription drug that should not be used without the supervision of a healthcare professional, but yet the book recommends that normal, healthy people take it to - of all things - "keep you awake and alert". The book also says, and I quote: "sleep-deprived people taking modafinil can outperform their unmedicated peers who have had a good night's sleep." So it also seems to suggest that going without sleep is ok because you can always rely on this drug to artificially keep you going. What a terrible message to be sending out! Modafinil, like any other drug, comes with side effects, and who knows what damage you could be doing to yourself if you really took the advice given here and decided to use this drug as a substitute for actually getting sufficient sleep?! I am speechless.