Think Like a Genius

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Summary: I just don't get the system.
Review: Ok, so after reading all the B.S., where is the system?
The author gives a new word and describes the concept behind it with a lot of marketing and not so much substance. It is like reading a book on mysticism. Then he describes the method using the C.R.E.A.T.E acroynym. After this he states that these steps must be applied to each of 4 levels.
The problem for me arises in how the C.R.E.A.T.E. steps are applied at each level (I am assuming he means to apply each step of C.R.E.A.T.E. systematically at each level). In his metaphorms he uses the 4 steps without ever explaining how he got his answers * i.e. from which parts of the C.R.E.A.T.E. steps he derives them *.
It seems he gives some nice ways of looking at issues, but the logic of this is not explained well at all in this book.
Intuitively I get the idea that after going through the C.R.E.A.T.E. steps the results can be parsed to the four levels.
If you really understand this system, please post to this review board and let this 'non-genius' know.

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Summary: Great book
Review: THINK LIKE A GENIUS is the single simplest thing I have read which allows us to understand the ways in which we ordinary folks may be like geniuses. It's not saying that anyone can be a genius --that takes a special kind of "what" in the brain, but it is saying we can use the "how" that great thinkers often use. The "how" of great ideas is creativity -- not a mystical gift bestowed on a few, but a human survival skill that most of us never bother to really develop. Or, to be fair, which school and corporate life, etc., beats down until our creativity is like a whipped dog -- not willing to come out of the shadow. The way Siler writes is deceptively simple -- a sort of DUMMIES GUIDE TO THE BRAIN -- but things like intelligence and creativity are pretty difficult to describe -- in technical or any other terms. The bottom line is that he makes sense and this is a book that will wake you up.

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Summary: A lucid, convincing way to learn how to live at your peak
Review: Todd Siler is an world recognized artist who couldn't satisfactorily answer his own questions about how our minds --specifically our imaginations --work. So he ended up doing brain research at MIT and getting their first ever interdisciplinary doctorate. His work revealed that though geniuses all excel in different areas, they often use the same mental processes and approaches. His insights into peak performance and creativity are not only easy to absorb, they really make sense. Also, even if you think you cannot possibly think like a genius (you may surprise yourself!)along the way to thinking at higher intensity there are numerous side benefits: faster integration of lots of disparate information (i.e. information overload);enhanced memory; greater inventiveness and perspective. I found that it gave me two instant jump-starts on frustrating problems (one of them was a writer's block...) Deceptively simple and easy to read, this is a very intelligent little book.