PART THREE

How to Be More Creative

If you know the nature of water, it is easier to row a boat.

Chinese proverb

The world does have a body of knowledge about creative thinking, how the human mind operates when it is about its business of generang new valuable ideas, which was covered in Parts One and Two.

The focus of Part Three is on the more applied area of creative thinking skills, together with some prac cal suggesons on how you can develop them.

Geniuses, of course, do all these things spontaneously and unselfconsciously. It is second nature for them to listen to their depth mind and to feed it through observa on, conversaon and reading. ‘There is in genius itself,’ wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘an unconscious acvity; indeed, that is the ...

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