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Rules of Thinking, The
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Rules of Thinking, The

by Richard Templar
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
Pearson Business
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RULE 47

Make connections

You’re aiming to open up new channels in your mind, routes your thoughts have never previously gone down. One way to do that is to give yourself a start point and an end point that you’ve never travelled between before, so you’ll have to take a new road. If you’ve never been to Timbuktu, you can’t get there – even from your own front door – without taking some roads you’ve never used.

Same thing with your brain. Make it travel a new route. Not only will this help with your current creative challenge, it will also exercise your creative juices more generally, so you win on two counts. Now, as with going from home to Timbuktu, it makes no difference if one of the two ends of the journey is familiar. So make one of the ...

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ISBN: 9781292263823