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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Are You Feeling the Wrong Answers?
A further menace to thinking is the sway of prejudice and emotion. People feel as well as think, or it might be better to say they feel more than they think. Anyway, these two sides of human nature are closely … Continue reading
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How To Create the Foundation of Idea Producing
A young man walked into a store to buy a necktie. The blank bare wall behind the tie counter depressed him. What would fill it attractively and increase sales? He experimented with his camera and a darkroom, produced an enlargement more than ten feet long and sold it to the clothing store. He had started an entirely new business idea, now called photo murals that paid him handsomely.
One single observation or interpretation of a sensation has been the turning point of a person’s life in thousands of cases. Continue reading
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