Rules of Thinking, The

RULE 41

Feed your mind

Einstein is a bit of a hero of mine, and he reckoned that imagination was more important than knowledge. That’s even more true now when almost all knowledge is out there in the ether waiting for you to call it down at the tap of a keyboard. You really don’t need to be storing it in your head. But imagination – you can’t download that, and imagination is the key to creative thinking. So what you really need to do is expand your imagination any way you can.

Einstein also said the way to have intelligent children was to read them fairy tales. To increase their intelligence further, you should read them more fairy tales. When you hear the words of a story, the plot might be provided for you by the writer, but your imagination ...