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THE PRINCIPLE
You can learn to be more creative by modelling your favourite genius
Wouldn’t it be great if you could learn from Thomas Edison, Linus Pauling, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Stephen Hawking, Abraham Lincoln, Marie Curie, Nikolai Tesla, Vincent van Gogh, or your other favourite genius?
They may be unavailable due to being busy or dead, but just about every genius in any area either wrote or was written about. In many cases, you can find out not only what influenced them but also their thought processes, in books like How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci by Michael Gelb (Element) and Socrates’ Way: Seven Keys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost by Ronald Gross (published by Jeremy P. Tarcher).
You’ll find in many cases ...
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