Think Naked: Childlike Brilliance in the Rough Adult World (Paperback)

~ Peter Lloyd Marco Marsan (Author)

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Don't you wish you had what it takes to handle all the stuff that life serves up? Well you do - at least you did. You were once fully equipped to make life an incredible experience. The fact is that 98 percent of us are geniuses early in life, and almost all of us lose our genius. Is it lost forever? No. Champion of creative thinking, Marco Marsan will reunite you with your childhood creativity, your unbridled curiosity, and your exuberance for life. Each chapter will unlock the spirit of your childhood genius, buried deep within, as you attack fear - the main enemy of your childlike mental agility. Each exercise in the book is designed to help you undo years of negative conditioning. Marco operates on the premise that if we could think as nimbly as a child and combine that power with our adult library of knowledge, we would achieve life-and world-changing breaktrhoughs.

About the Author

Author, marketer, corporate anarchist, and founder of Marco Polo Explorers, Marco Marsan was named one of America's top Out-of-the-Box thinkers by the Mazda Corporation. Employing his out-of-the-box approach, Marco and his Explorers have helped create a long list of remarkably successful new products for some of the biggest and smartest marketing companies in the world. Not content to keep his success to himself, Marco has spoken to tens of thousands of people on the power of innovation and creativity at his Think Naked! speeches. He believes everyone can unleash the naked spirit of their childhood and enjoy a life full of optimism and success. This Think Naked! philosophy unfolds in his newest book, Think Naked! Childlike Brilliance in the Rough Adult World. Marco lives with his son, Shane, and cat, Boris, at the Piazza San Marco in the majestic Appalachian foothills of Mt. Lookout, Ohio.

Product Details

• Paperback: 285 pages
• Publisher: Jodere Group (April 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158872042X
• ISBN-13: 978-1588720429
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #890,298 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Re-discover Your Child-like Brilliance, November 22, 2003

By	Janet Boyer "JanetBoyer.com" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

First off, I have to say that I agree with the other reviewer regarding editing: the Jodere group consistently publishes books with very bad editing, sometimes using several semi-colons in one sentence...ALL the time. Aggravating. 5 Stars for content, zero for editing.

Shoddy editorship aside, the information in this book is helpful and even fascinating. Author, marketer, corporate anarchist, and founder of Marco Polo Explorers, Marco Marsan was named one of America's top Out-of-the-Box thinkers by the Mazda Corporation. Think Naked came out earlier this year, and it's a delightful book about re-discovering child-like brilliance. Marsan has something interesting things to say on the inside flap of his book: "Dr. Seuss once described adults as 'obsolete children'. Extensive studies show that there is a 98 percent chance you were a creative genius before age four. Business week magazine says that a 40-year old adult is about two percent as creative as a five-year-old child. Findings like these tell us that creative genius isn't something you find--it's something that you've merely, and perhaps, only temporarily lost." Some chapters in this book include You Were A Genius:Discovering the childlike brilliance you were born with, See Saw:Balancing the combination of kidlike genius with your adult wealth of experience, Wear Your Cape:How to create conditions that encourage risk-taking without fear, and Show And Tell:How to get in touch with your passions and your exuberance.

Throughout the book, Marsan gives fascinating examples from scientific studies, pop-culture, trends, nature, and other sources to illustrate just how in the box many of us remain--especially when it comes to personal satisfaction and creativity.

This book is a lot of fun to read, and stimulates thinking outside of conventional, plodding thought patterns. Refreshing and bold, it's sure to be a welcome addition for the library of a manager or business professional, and for anyone wanting to infuse the zest of new perspectives into their lives.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Marco Marsan does not disappoint!!!!, July 29, 2003

By	Rob (Cincinnati) - See all my reviews

I must say that I am extremely impressed with this book as a whole-It's put together well and is a breeze to read. All of the concepts are extremely well thought out and easily applicable to daily life. I'm on my way to being a Naked Thinker but due to about 23 years of extensive "hardwiring",as Marsan calls it, its not something that's gonna happen overnight. I keep this book by my bed and I try to reread a couple of pages a day and work them into my daily routine. I must say that it feels great so far, and I've begun to make so many much needed changes in my life. This is by far one of the most brilliant books I've ever read as far as being something that you can apply to daily life and it can only improve and enhance your current life. No doubt I'm going to be recommending this book to just about everyone I know. This book has definitely helped me in so many ways and will be extremely useful to my success and happiness in my career, relationships, and the way I live my life.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!!!!, July 29, 2003

By	Michael Michalko (Churchville, New York USA) - See all my reviews

Michael Michalko, I'm the author of the creative thinking books "Thinkertoys" and "Cracking Creativity" and have known Peter Lloyd for many years. Peter is a contributor to Marco Marsan's "Think Naked" and encouraged me to review it. This book is an excellent guide on how to become creative and alive again.

We see people who are wonderfully alive and people who are depressed and defeated every day. Once, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, in a café in Old Montreal I saw a woman rise from her table and for no reason started to sing opera. She had a certain smile and I knew she was perfectly at home with herself. She was wearing a great wide hat, her arms were flung out in an expansive gesture, singing, and utterly oblivious to everything but what was in her and around her at that second. Even as you read this, you are thinking of people you know who are alive and people who are lifeless.

This woman was wonderfully alive and self-creating. When you meet a person like the woman in Montreal you get this vague feeling inside you that you "ought to be" something more. You already know this feeling. We get this feeling when we recognize the thing in others that we long to be. This feeling seems so trivial, so fundamental that we ought to be like that, that we dare not admit it to others. We long to become more alive and creative in our personal and business lives. The feeling for it is the most primitive feeling which a person can have. The feeling for it is as primitive as the feeling for your own well being.

"Think Naked" will help you become what you ought to be. It reminded me to dance every day if only in my mind.