How to Be a Brilliant Thinker Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions

Name: How to Be a Brilliant Thinker Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions
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ISBN: 9780749455064

ISBN-10: 0749455063

ISBN-13: 9780749455064

Edition: 2010

Authors: Paul Sloane

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List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Kogan Page, Limited
Publication date: 1/3/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.54" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Paul Sloane is an experienced speaker, course leader and facilitator as well as a leading author of lateral thinking puzzles. He speaks and gives workshops on innovation and creative thinking to corporations around the world. He has written The Leaders Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills and The Innovative Leader, both published by Kogan Page.



Foreword



The need for different thinking



Consider the opposite



Confront assumptions



Analyse problems


The path to the ideal


Why, Why?


Six serving men


Lotus blossom


Summary



Ask questions



Think in combinations



Parallel thinking



think creatively



Think laterally



Think what no one else thinks



Evaluate ideas


Selection criteria


Triage


Group evaluation methods



Make difficult decision


Pair rankings



Develop your verbal thinking


GEt a good dictionary and thesaurus


Read


Capture new words


Write, rewrite and edit


Play with words


Listen to yourself


Take the verbal intelligence questionnaire



Think mathematically



Get to grips with probability



Think visually


Questionnaire on visual thinking


answers to the questions



Develop your emotional intelligence


Self-awarencess


self-management


social awareness


Relationship management



Be a brilliant conversationalist


Ask questions


Listen


Give compliments


Use names


Keep up to date on topical issues


Be humorous


Speak clearly


Enjoy it



Win arguments


Dos, don'ts and sneaky tactics


Questionnaire



ponder


Listen


Slow down your life


Prioritize


Declutter


Delay some decisions


Incubate


Meditate


Allocate time for reflection



Maximize your memory


Memory pegging techniques


The virtual journey


Mnemonics


Remembering numbers


Remembering names



Experiment, fail and learn


Questionnarie on learning from mistakes



Tell stories



Think humorously



Think positively



Set goals



Priortize and focus


Handling your to-do list



Turn thinking into action


Why procrastination is dangerous


Ask yourself' Why am I stuck?


It is all right not to know


Don't wait for perfection


Phone a friend


Remind yourself of the benefits


Do something-get into motion


Set goals


Share your goals and actions


Pause, don't stop


Mentally rehearse and then act


Take the procrastination questionnaire



Common thinking errors


The Availability error


Mistaking the cause


The gambler'ls fallacy


The confirmation bias


Clustering illusion


Cognitive biases



Boost your brain



Games for brilliant thinkers



Summary-a checklist for the brilliant thinker



Answers



References and further reading


Index