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Summary: A great brain work out.........
Review: This gem of a book is shy 200 pages and is set in four sections beginning with Stir Your Mind with Heraclitus, then The Creative Insights of Heraclitus, Final Thoughts and Answers to Puzzles. It's nice that on page 5 the author tells the reader who are unfamiliar with this Greek sage, who he was and when he lived. 500 BCE. "This means that he was an almost exact contemporary of the Chinese thinkers Lao-tzu and Confucious, the Indian contemplative Siddhartha Gautama (the historical Buddha) and was only a little younger than the Persian prophet Zarathustra."On page 12 and 12 the author lists thirty epigrams which he believes best express Heraclitus' philosophy of the creative spirit. And being a mathematical and puzzle solving family we were intrigued with the puzzles of life that the author discusses. I think great thinkers love math and life puzzles. As an example the letters of the alphabet can be grouped into four different categories (1)A,M (2) B,C,D,E,K;(3)F,G,J,K,L; and (4) H,I. Figure out the pattern and place the remaining 13 letters in their appropriate categories. Or how about Find what the following words have in common: laughing, starburst, calmness, crabcake, stuffed, canopy, hijack. Now the book is much more than mind games. It is after all about thinking outside the box, or simply thinking, which sadly many people are afraid to do. The author like his subject knows the value of straining ones brain. Asking questions and looking for more than one answer. Dissecting life's challenges and seeing each lesson as the next step to the next lesson and in the end wisdom. The author realizes that digging deeper for questions and answers produced gems of wisdom and solutions and that we simply need to be open to the possibilities. Optimistic rather than pessimistic. This is a book that men as well as women will savor. And one both my husband and I find ourselves opening and re-reading and realizing that new lessons and gems of wisdom are there no matter how often we re-read the book. And if you end up with a headache when reading this book it is my opinion that your brain has had a good workout.
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