CHAPTER   3

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Training Your Mind to Think in a Creative Way

O NE OF MY earliest memories is from kindergarten. It’s fairly normal and might be seen as routine, but to me it was a defining moment of my young childhood education that I still remember vividly.

I was given a huge piece of butcher paper. I still remember the smell, the brown color, the texture, the feel, and the fact that it was bigger than my entire desk. Up to that point, I had never seen a piece of paper that big.

Soon the teacher gave every student in the class a paintbrush and a few different colors. She told us to fill the paper with a drawing of anything we wanted. It was ...

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