How to Think Like Einstein: Simple Ways to Break the Rules and Discover Your Hidden Genius (Paperback)

by Thorpe (Author) "This book will teach you to create solutions to your toughest, even impossible, problems..." (more)
Key Phrases: rule rut, enabling problem, Einstein Thinking, Chris Concepts, Joan of Arc (more...)

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"Provides stimulating and thought-provoking listening on one of the greatest creative minds of the 20th century. . . Fresh and invigorating, this audio says we can all be Einstein in our own unique ways." --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Product Description
In this totally accessible, ingenious book, you will learn the tricks and techniques used by Albert Einstein and other great minds to solve bewildering problems. From business and parenting to becoming more creative and improving relationships, How to Think Like Einstein provides the tools to discovering breakthrough solutions to everyday challenges.

By discovering how to free your mind and think like a genius, you will be able to break the rules that inhibit you. You will make your business more profitable, improve educational opportunities for your children, achieve artistic and creative breakthroughs, enhance the quality of your life and even get your uncooperative kids to bed on time.

The impossible will become attainable when you learn how to solve problems by calling on such unlikely characters as Henry VIII, Dopey of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and your favorite aunt. Using the creative and original examples provided in this book, you will be able to solve any problem in your life--business, family or personal--and you will have the time of your life doing it.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 226 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.; 1st edition (January 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570715858
• ISBN-13: 978-1570715853
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #271,401 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Some good ideas, but hardly unique, September 8, 2002

By	B. Pomeroy "bpomeroy54" (Sewell, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Anyone who is familiar with the think-oustide-the-box genre of self-improvement and creativity books will find very little new or inspiring here. And despite the title, the book also has very little to do with Einstein. A deeper analysis of the great thinker's intellectual history woud have been more useful than the largely recycled do's and dont's that dominate the book.

The points presented here, however, are hardly without merit, especially the tips on brainstorming and free association.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for the kids!, December 13, 2000

A Kid's Review

I believe this book expands on critical thinking. The one thing that has limited our children in improving thier thought, has been the solidifying of thought or also known as rules or traditions. Those elements due benefit society, but the encouragement of critical thinking can improve it. This book helps question why you do the things you do. Are you a go with the flow type of person? Do you feel like you are a affiliator instead of an achiever? It starts in the mind. This book will help you challenge old ways of thinking and learn to renew your thinking to improve good to better.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I don't think so., May 30, 2003

By	Gaetan Lion - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This book is really vague in its recommendation. Most of the suggestions are not readily applicable.

If you want a much better book on thinking read "How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci" by Michael Gelb.