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The Mindstorming Method

Do you remember the metaphor of stirring up the sugar in the coffee? You have enormous reserves of creativity that you can stir up and stimulate by using a variety of techniques. The Mindstorming method is one of them.

According to brain expert Tony Buzan, your brain has about 100 billion cells, each of which is connected directly and indirectly via ganglia and dendrites to approximately 20,000 other cells. Mathematically this means that the number of ideas or thoughts that you can generate is 100 billion to the 20,000th power, the equivalent of the number one followed by eight pages of zeros, line by line. The number of thoughts that you can think is greater than the number of molecules in the known universe. You ...

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