Chapter 3: The Expert Stumped
Chapter 3: The Expert Stumped
What do you do when you decide to think of an idea? Sit down at a desk, look out the window, chew a pencil, doodle on a pad, worry about the bill from the insurance, and mope about that girl or guy you saw in the street. In other words, you think of everything but producing and idea. Result, no idea produced.
You have two ways to go about solving your difficulty, the wrong way or the right way. Here is the too familiar picture of the wrong way:
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Most people have considered creativeness an elusive ability that is born, not made. They look upon a new idea as an accident that descends from the ether and just dangles before the eyes of some fortunate person. But as we shall see, there is no mystery or magic involved. The whole problem resolves itself merely into getting the right combinations of old ideas or parts of old ideas int a new, practical or interesting arrangement.
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