PART TWO

Developing Creative Intuition

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.

Chinese proverb

As a preliminary to tackling the more practical techniques and strategies for creative thinking later in the book, Part Two offers you a series of doors through which you can explore what it means to be a creative person.

The first cluster of Ideas revolves around the open-mindedness you need to develop. For without a wealth of information your mind will have no materials to work on. And without curiosity, the mind's natural eagerness to learn, the shelves in your larder will remain empty.

Being more creative is becoming childlike again, in the sense that you enjoy playing with ideas just for the fun of it. The second stream ...

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