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

  • 2h 24m
  • Paul Sloane
  • Kogan Page
  • 2010

Do you want to have great ideas? Do you want to break out of the rut of conventional thinking? Would you like to be a genius? Would presenting brilliant ideas help in your job, careers and social life?

How to be a Brilliant Thinker will help you to achieve all these ideals, by giving practical tips on how to think in powerful new ways. It shows you how to harness techniques in lateral thinking, analytical thinking, problem analysis, idea generation and other areas so that you become much more creative. You will be able to conceive, evaluate and implement great ideas as well as improve your memory, sell your ideas and win arguments. It is packed with practical methods that you can put to immediate use, backed up with exercises, puzzles, quizzes, graphics and illustrations.

About the Author

Paul Sloane is an experienced speaker, course leader and facilitator. He is a recognized authority on innovation and creative speaking and he speaks and gives workshops on these subjects to leading corporations around the world. He is the best-selling author of How to Be a Brilliant Thinker, The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills and The Innovative Leader, all published by Kogan Page.

In this Book

  • Foreword
  • The Need for Different Thinking
  • Consider the Opposite
  • Confront Assumptions
  • Analyse Problems
  • Ask Questions
  • Think in Combinations
  • Parallel Thinking
  • Think Creatively Great Ways to Boost Your Personal Creativity
  • Think Laterally
  • Think What No One Else Thinks
  • Evaluate Ideas
  • Make Difficult Decisions
  • Develop Your Verbal Thinking
  • Think Mathematically
  • Get to Grips with Probability
  • Think Visually
  • Develop Your Emotional Intelligence
  • Be a Brilliant Conversationalist
  • Win Arguments
  • Ponder
  • Maximize Your Memory
  • Experiment, Fail and Learn
  • Tell Stories
  • Think Humorously
  • Think Positively
  • Set Goals
  • Prioritize and Focus
  • Turn Thinking into Action
  • Common Thinking Errors
  • Boost Your Brain
  • Games for Brilliant Thinkers
  • Summary – A Checklist for the Brilliant Thinker
  • References and Further Reading
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