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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How Do You Think of an Idea?
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: Continue reading
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8 Qualities For Getting Ideas
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. Continue reading
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