Chapters
- Do you know how to get ideas?
- Idea Origination
- What is an idea?
- Expert Stumped
- Imagination & Observation
- Thinking up an Idea
- The Formula
- The Question Technique
- The Improvement Urge
- Change is the Secret
- Ideas from nature
- If You Wish To Invent
- Abstract Ideas
- Research
- Taking and Filing Notes
- Inspiration and the Subconscious
- Intuition
- Relaxation
- The Correct Use of Idea Energy
- Verification
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Creative Energies Will Multiply the Good
It is more necessary today than ever to look for the good. There is a great deal of superficiality, triviality, to say nothing of evil, in modern life. When the attention is concentrated upon the continual discovery or development of good, its creative energies will multiply the good.
There is a better side, a superior side, a beautiful side to everyone and everything. By learning to look for the better and higher qualities in persons and things we ally ourselves with these and not only produce better ideas and more constructive ones, but improve ourselves at the same time by more desirable and up building attitudes. Continue reading
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Do You Lack the Capacity To Be More Creative?
I much like the word “amateur” as we might apply it to the subject of getting ideas. From the French verb, “to love,” its literal English meaning is to have such a fondness for a particular endeavor that one cultivates it eagerly without pursuing it professionally. Many notable discoveries in science have been made by amateurs. Newton’s occupation was that of a government employee. His scientific exploits were the hobbies of an “amateur”. To Einstein, mathematics was a hobby, his work being in the Swiss patent office. Continue reading
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