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

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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.

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.

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.

Some other reviewers have said that this is a simple book for beginners. I have many books on creativity and I thought the book was excellent and wouldn't rate it for beginners. The book was laid out very clearly and thus someone unfamiliar with some creativity concepts could follow it.

As I read the book I have become fascinated with how the author combined solution methodologies.

There's a lot of work in following his long list of things to do and ask, but I think the results will be well worth it.

John Dunbar
Sugar Land, TX

I have read a great many books on process and decision making and I think this one is practical, usable, accessible, and straightforward. I used one of the principles a day after finishing the book, with great results. I would recommend to anyone who wants to tweak their thinking and problem solving skills.

Short and to the point, this book presents an appealing way to look at the difficult problems we face in our daily lives and presents skills that can easily be transferred to the business world. I really liked the steps stating how to identify and break the usual thinking patterns we automatically use when we try to solve problems and that may lead us away from an innovative and viable solution. After reading this book "rule ruts", "Chris concepts" and "seed ideas" will become part of your working vocabulary and hopefully serve you in solving your impossible problems. I recommend this book to managers, government officials and college students because when you are desperately trying to solve a difficult problem and running out of ideas the steps to create, explore and develop a different point of view will come in handy.

This is the worst book... and the price...
I understand that if it is around $20 I am expecting something good... but not this!

Length:: 2:57 Mins

Jurgen Wolff, author of "Creativity Now!" talks about how this book shows you what you can learn from Einstein--and from Dumbo!Creativity Now: Get inspired, create ideas and make them happen now!

Personally, this has been a very helpful, useful audio book for me. It's helped me learn to think out of the box in my own inventing as well as in everyday life. I've used the techniques in this book often over the years.

This book aims to teach you new ways to solve problems, increase the profitability of your business, improve educational opportunities for your children, make artisistic and creative breakthroughs, and enhance the quality of your life. Does it succeed? Yes...sort of.

Essentially, its most salient content centers on the breaking of rule-ruts, which are ingrained patterns of thinking which we mistake for truths. Scott Thorpe, the book's author, says that rule ruts are like railroad tracks: if you want to go to where the railroad track goes, just follow it. But if you don't, you have to get off of it. In short, break your own rules of thinking.

While Albert Einstein is the perfect person to reference in the contextualization of the book's premise, it runs out of steam rather quickly. The topic would have made a great, in-depth article. As a book, it has its moments, just not enough of them.