PART ONE

Find Your Own Creative Mind

Man is pre-eminently a creative animal, predestined to strive consciously for an object and to engage in building – that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

Fyodor Dostoevski, Russian novelist

Creativity, creative thinking and even innovation are terms used so widely and so often that they are now in danger of losing their meaning altogether.

The first cluster of Ideas in Part One not only restores their meanings but also serves – I hope – as a personal invitation for you to consider yourself a creative and innovave individual. It's your self-percepon that matters.

That journey to the more creative you begins by exploring briefly the wonder of the human mind, that most ...

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