Everyday Smart: 30 Ways to Spark Your Inner Genius (Little Everyday Deck) [Cards]

Eric Maisel (Creator)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2004 | Series: Little Everyday Deck

Award-winning creativity coach and therapist, Eric Maisel, offers the A Little Every Day Deck series to help readers develop a more centered, creative, intelligent life. Each card in the series presents a single idea and a simple exercise to try every day. Readers can use the decks in a variety of ways. They can:

• Read through the 30 cards in the deck, pick one that resonates, and try the simple exercise the card suggests.

• Use the cards as a 30-day program, practicing one message and exercise a day.

• Shuffle the cards, cut the deck, and let a random message speak.

• Find a favorite message and exercise, repeat it until the message is taken to heart, then go on to another card in the deck.

Each deck is designed to work with the others to help readers grow in profound, even unexpected ways.

Everyday Smart gives 30 ways to get smarter by tapping into the inner genius. Readers learn to manifest their native intelligence, intuitive abilities, and critical-thinking skills. Cards show how to nurture ideas, embrace solitude, cultivate thoughtfulness, sleep-think solutions to problems, and more.

Thoughtfulness is an attitude. Without it, intelligence is mere potential. Honor your pensive, thoughtful nature. Grow smart by cultivating a thoughtful attitude. Think BIG! Let the immensity of you come out. Stretch intellectually. Grow smart by entertaining large ideas. Trial and error is the best teacher. Have real experiences. Learn from them. Grow smart through trial-and-error experimentation.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Eric Maisel is a therapist, creativity coach, and award-winning writer. He is the author of more than 20 books, including The Van Gogh Blues, the 2002 finalist for Books for a Better Life Award; Affirmations for Artists, named Best Book of the Year for Artists by New Age magazine; Fearless Creating; A Life in the Arts; and Sleep Thinking. Maisel lives and practices in San Francisco, California.

Product Details

• Cards: 34 pages
• Publisher: Red Wheel; Crds edition (August 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590030788
• ISBN-13: 978-1590030783
• Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 3.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,417,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Focus on Using Your Native Intelligence, Wit, & Intuition, October 15, 2004

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Lori L. Lake "Author of Like Lovers Do, Buyer... (Portland, Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everyday Smart: 30 Ways to Spark Your Inner Genius (Little Everyday Deck) (Cards)

After a couple of weeks of using the "Everyday Creative" set of cards, I moved on to "Everyday Smart: 30 Ways to Spark Your Inner Genius," which contains thirty different ways to prompt one's inner genius. Author Eric Maisel encourages people to "manifest your native intelligence, your intuitive abilities, and your critical thinking skills." Looking at one of these cards each day over a period of a month was a real eye-opener. Each card concentrates upon one specific area ("Grow smart by strategizing," "Grow smart by inviting the elegant solution," etc.), and the reader is invited to think about ways to be smart and to use intelligence, wit, and intuition.

By turns playful and serious, the cards are exactly what Maisel bills them to be: evocative, beautiful, and useful. I also found that they serve as excellent affirmations for the day. I highly recommend this kit for anyone focusing on art, writing, politics-or any other topic or subject that requires creativity, originality, or problem-solving. ~Lori L. Lake, Midwest Book Review and The Independent Gay Writer

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Save your money, January 8, 2007

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This review is from: Everyday Smart: 30 Ways to Spark Your Inner Genius (Little Everyday Deck) (Cards)

The vague and insultingly simplistic ideas on these cards inspire the opposite of creativity. Slick packaging makes for a pretty product, but the substance is not worthwhile; I'm returning mine. Maisel has a lot of worthwhile writing -- check out his _Fearless Creating_ if you haven't already -- but give this gimmick a miss.