Re-think
Barlow, Nigel May
Re-think How To Think Differently Barlow, Nigel May - New Delhi Wiley India Pvt Ltd. 2006 - VIII, 283
Table of Contents
Thank you ix
Dedication x
Introduction 1
1 The way we see things 11
Borrowing the perceptions of others 23
New fantasies, new heroes 28
Spring-clean your beliefs 33
2 Awakening curiosity 39
Open-page thinking 53
New people, new ideas 57
Things to be curious about 62
3 Intuition and eureka 71
Accelerating eurekas 84
Mind the gap 88
Idleness and the environment for intuition 92
4 Paying attention 99
Taking a bat's view 116
Family rituals 120
There's no present like the time 125
5 Co-creation 131
Blue thinking 144
A question of style 148
6 Funny bones 151
Ah-aha-haha! 161
7 Simply beautiful 171
Surround yourself with beauty 183
8 Storytime! 187
Writing and living your story 200
9 Meditation 211
Just do it! 224
10 You, me, us – relationships 225
Relate! 243
11 The biggest re-think of all 247
Coda – Acting as if 255
Appendix 1 – The Re-Think research 257
Appendix 2 – Re-think resources 271
About Nigel Barlow 275
Index 277
Description
What does it take to re-think anything in your life? Sometimes nothing short of turning your whole world upside down. Slow down your thinking for a moment. What is your brain doing? Almost certainly trying to come up with a single right answer because then you can stop thinking about the problem. All too often we are not really thinking, but sleepwalking through life. Fresh angles on familiar problems elude us. Re-thinking is the opposite: it means seeing better or different solutions. In other words, thinking as unusual. Rethink shows you why and how.
What if today you were to . . . Buy a new newspaper? Take a different route home? Say ‘yes’ to everything your partner asks? Invent new rituals for your family? Surround yourself with beauty? Try a first take at the creative fantasy sleeping in the attic of your mind? Find a new hero? Discover more about your upbringing? Act as if anything were possible rather than yes-butting the new?
You’d be a re-thinker. Why not? There’s always a better or different solution to the way you lead your personal or professional life. Rethink will help you to stop living on autopilot and reawaken your sense of wonder, curiosity, and creativity.
9788126510030
Creative Thinking
158.1 / BAR
Re-think How To Think Differently Barlow, Nigel May - New Delhi Wiley India Pvt Ltd. 2006 - VIII, 283
Table of Contents
Thank you ix
Dedication x
Introduction 1
1 The way we see things 11
Borrowing the perceptions of others 23
New fantasies, new heroes 28
Spring-clean your beliefs 33
2 Awakening curiosity 39
Open-page thinking 53
New people, new ideas 57
Things to be curious about 62
3 Intuition and eureka 71
Accelerating eurekas 84
Mind the gap 88
Idleness and the environment for intuition 92
4 Paying attention 99
Taking a bat's view 116
Family rituals 120
There's no present like the time 125
5 Co-creation 131
Blue thinking 144
A question of style 148
6 Funny bones 151
Ah-aha-haha! 161
7 Simply beautiful 171
Surround yourself with beauty 183
8 Storytime! 187
Writing and living your story 200
9 Meditation 211
Just do it! 224
10 You, me, us – relationships 225
Relate! 243
11 The biggest re-think of all 247
Coda – Acting as if 255
Appendix 1 – The Re-Think research 257
Appendix 2 – Re-think resources 271
About Nigel Barlow 275
Index 277
Description
What does it take to re-think anything in your life? Sometimes nothing short of turning your whole world upside down. Slow down your thinking for a moment. What is your brain doing? Almost certainly trying to come up with a single right answer because then you can stop thinking about the problem. All too often we are not really thinking, but sleepwalking through life. Fresh angles on familiar problems elude us. Re-thinking is the opposite: it means seeing better or different solutions. In other words, thinking as unusual. Rethink shows you why and how.
What if today you were to . . . Buy a new newspaper? Take a different route home? Say ‘yes’ to everything your partner asks? Invent new rituals for your family? Surround yourself with beauty? Try a first take at the creative fantasy sleeping in the attic of your mind? Find a new hero? Discover more about your upbringing? Act as if anything were possible rather than yes-butting the new?
You’d be a re-thinker. Why not? There’s always a better or different solution to the way you lead your personal or professional life. Rethink will help you to stop living on autopilot and reawaken your sense of wonder, curiosity, and creativity.
9788126510030
Creative Thinking
158.1 / BAR