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** INTRODUCTION
Oh well, easter, easter, easter, the beauty. I really haven't figured out the whole thing about eggs though, easter and eggs. I was thinking I'd be eating eggs and more eggs and probably it starts growing above my head, haha. Well, I'd be writing this as a sequel to my previous post. It's a continuation because I didn't get any book suggestions for the week from the comment section and the good part is that it gave me time to rest and also finish up the book and trust it it was total bliss.
** MY VIEW
So after the chapter ten, boom. John gives the first practical step for creative thinking. A awell expected one I must say. He stress hoe important to keep a notebook to record ideas that come into someone in a flash. Some ideas just come to you in the shower(am guilty) or why taking a walk through. It is very important this advice, keep a notebook, preferably a pocket sized notebook with hard cover, record thoughts, quotes, what ever it is, they'd all come back together later. John also states a point, testing your assumptions. Note: this assumptions ain't guesses you make. Guessing is more like picking Side and sticking with it, assumptions are more like : "if I do this, what would happen?" "what if this was made like this?". Making no fixed decision with them. Bottom line, make assumptions without commitment. John also points out something pretty important in this chapter by giving a simple exercise of connecting a dot. "Thinking outside the box". Never feel constrained to only a single method, connects the dot. I'd like to point out that I realised this some time ago from a fried at work, I'd just withhold his name, he is a prick, really. He says "was there ever any box". That statement has helped me realise that I wasn't even caged at the first place, think wide. He also made mention of making better use of your depth mind. Well, this chapter got me over my head, lol. I feel it'd hit everyone in different ways, but he talked about emotions, how having the right emotions could foster creative thinking, emotions like confidence, curiosity, honesty, etc. And how negative emotions like fear, anxiety, etc could be inimical to thinking creatively. He also talks about the depth of mind, the beauty of the subconscious, all those hunch and hint you get and you are like "I feel this would be a better option" and then boom it was. It's not some voodoo crap it's actually your depth mind interpreting all the natural signs around it. John also states the need not to wait for inspiration before one goes to work. Do not wait for inspiration or you would wait forever, this is where a principle i learnt recently comes In, "the do something principle". The principle says that what ever you want to do, you have to start by doing something, anything, then having the other thing you want to do in mind. Action isn't just the effect of inspiration, it's also the cause of it(i learnt that from a sense).
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Sharpening your analytical skills, clear thinking, been able to redefine you problem. You should see problems as an opportunity to think. A few people think once or twice a year, I try to think once or twice a week. Thinking, reaching out to that subconscious, the depth mind, asking why not and asking why. Suspend judgement, especially premature ones. You ever wonder why writers and other people who do great stuff don't tell people during the process of a work? It's because that's the time when they try everything, when they do this and see what's happen, they need not any sort of criticism, likewise anybody. Allow for a full blown idea, we all know constructive criticism are a very vital aspect of growth, but knowing when to and when not to is key. I quote "Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to be aware – these are the true aims and duties of criticism". Learn to tolerate ambiguity, learn to interpret in various ways. The idea is not in seeking new problems but having different eyes. Uncertainty is healthy, learn not to be too certain about everything, in the words of Mark Mason. There is the need to drift, wait and obey. This is very important. Learn the time to leave a problem and come back to it. Now I'd give you a little advice, I do it to. I keep a problem in my sub conscious when it seems pretty overwhelming and I don't forget it but I take it away from my mind. In this chapter, John brings by a very important message, reiterating the need to connects the dots. In the mind there are scattered information, what you do is connect them. Bring different topics together and see the similarities, because there is.
I love this part, sleep over your problem. Sleep, hehehehe. I actually enjoyed how beautifully illustrated this chapter was. It is because it's something so constant and usual to us and we take little cognizanse of it. Sleeping over a problem is very vital. Your dream, the solution. There's this illustration John made, about the inventor of the sewing machine who get to an impasse when using is thread, he left it, went to sleep and had a dream, woke and boom.
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CREATIVE THINKING ISN'T CREATIVITY. boom. You see what John did there, you thinking creatively isn't been creativity, you have to work it out. You have to materialise the idea. John makes a vital realisation for everyone, we are all writing the book of our life's. Make something up about your life, according to Steven (me, winks) don't follow for script, like the boy Santiago from the alchemist, follow your heart and be creative. "Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans" (John Lennon) - this quote explains a lot. It is my best quote for now, it is utter brilliance, so yeh folks, I admonish you to think creatively.
**MY reVIEW
See, this book is utter brilliance. It possess the right amount of flair for imagination as a great deal of creativity deals with your imagination. John has done maximum research for this. For any book to come to love, it requires illustrations, not just any illustrations, personal illustrations. He brings himself into it making us living it out through him and his eyes. I might point out that a little more practicality would have gone a long way but nevertheless, it's a exquisite. I particularly live the fact that he uses keypoints at the end of each chapters. It's brilliant he sums up pages and long text in simple, concise, straiyforward lines. It's just utter genius. I might have taken abit from it too for my review, lol. The checklist at the end is pretty neat. It's just fine.
**CONCLUSION
Well, I can categorically say that this is one of the most life transforming book I have read in a while. Note: what ever hour read here is no way an endorsement or sponsored post, this is solely my opinion and my view about the book. Also pardon my English and typos, lol. F*ck it, okay bye.
Oh and for next weeks review (Monday this time) I would be reading "the art of war" by sun tzu. If you find this fun you could read the book too and give a review next week.
Okay am tired, bye.
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