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How to be a Brilliant Thinker: Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions [Paperback]

Paul Sloane (Author)
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Publication Date: 3 Jan 2010 | ISBN-10: 0749455063 | ISBN-13: 978-0749455064

Do you want to have great ideas? Do you want to break out of the rut of conventional thinking? Would you like to be a genius? Would presenting brilliant ideas help in your job, career and social life?

How to be a Brilliant Thinker will help you to achieve all these ideals, by helping you to think in powerful new ways. It shows you how to harness techniques in lateral thinking, analytical thinking, problem analysis, idea generation and other areas so that you become much more creative. You will be able to conceive, evaluate and implement great ideas as well as improve your memory, sell your ideas and win arguments. It is packed with practical methods that you can put to immediate use, backed up by exercises, puzzles, quizzes, graphics and illustrations.

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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Kogan page (3 Jan 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0749455063
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749455064
  • Product Dimensions: 14 x 1 x 21.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 226,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"This marvellous new book reveals to how jump out of your well-worn mental habits, beliefs and assumptions and into some powerful, profitable new ways of thinking. If you want to make an impact in your world, then read How to be a Brilliant Thinker!" (Chuck Frey, Founder and Publisher, InnovationTools.com )

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How to be a Brilliant Thinker will show the reader how to find better ways to solve problems, conceive great ideas, retrain their brains, get out of the rut of conventional thinking and develop powerful thinking techniques.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Thinking...a skill you can learn 25 Jan 2010
By William
Format:Paperback
There's no doubt that you can train your brain to peform better. Paul Sloane,one of the world's leading exponents of lateral and creative thinking in business, sets out a series of simple techniques that anyone can follow to help them improve their powers of thought. Not only did I really enjoy this book, I found the ideas that Sloane puts forward very easy to follow and apply. And they really do work. I also disovered I have a much better head for mathematics than I thought I had.
A incredibly interesting and helpful book. Couldn't recommend it highly enough.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A vauable way to good mental training 26 Feb 2010
By A. Douglas-Dunbar
Format:Paperback
Paul Sloane's book is a very readable and easily digestible resource that can be read in convenient bite-size chunks. The chapters are numerous, short and to the point with excellent summaries and self-diagnostic tests. Even though much of the academic research Paul uses was not new to me it was presented in a fresh and interesting way that makes the book very useful to people who want to question their existing practices and sharpen-up the way they think and plan to do things,

This is a very handy mental guide for people in any walk of life and everybody would benefit from the advice given. The reader is left in no doubt that thinking is a skill that we all engage in but frequently do quite badly because we have simply not been taught how to do it well. Most importantly the author leaves you in no doubt that this is something you can do something about.

Whether you just need a refresher in better thinking or a starter course this book is very useful. I thoroughly recommend it
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5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect book for ambitious people 28 Jan 2010
By RMJ2007
Format:Paperback
A highly entertaining and thought-provoking book that uses masses of unexpected examples to highlight ways in which we can all use our little grey cells more effectively. It doesn't just cover academic thinking, but also ways to maximise your brainpower in social and professional life. Sloane touches on lateral thinking, logic, philosophy, creative problem-solving and many other areas in a witty and highly readable fashion, with lots of brain-teasers and other puzzles along the way. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would strongly recommend it as a gift for a friend or family member who needs a bit of encouragement to think more precisely or imaginatively.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An easy read but an important inspirational topic 20 Sep 2011
By D. C. Buchanan
Format:Paperback
Paul's book makes easy reading but he does get his message across in a succinct, narrative prose. The book is departmentalised and so one does not have to read it from cover to cover. I am sure an interesting blog could be created by Paul Sloane gathering opinions from readers on each aspect of becoming a brilliant thinker.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Just a thought 24 Jan 2013
By Adam
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I thought the book opened my mind to a wider way of thinking and
to solving problems with more options.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Simple and painless learning 29 Dec 2010
By N. Darmanin-Demajo
Format:Paperback
Being personally involved in the teaching of thinking and creative problem solving, I find Paul's books so refreshingly simple to read and easy to apply. In a world where things get more complicated every day, Paul breaks down the process of creative thinking into a series of short chapters, filled with anecdotes and puzzles that encourage the reader to take that first step into the magical world of lateral thinking and challenging the way our mind is wired.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Book Review - How to be a Brilliant Thinker, by Paul Sloane 28 Nov 2010
By William Gc Roney
Format:Paperback
The unkind would describe this as a puzzle book packaged up as a serious attempt to make us, the people, use our brains better and more effectively. The unkind would be wrong. This book is an effective way of boosting the capabilities of your brain using relatively simple techniques. These techniques are designed for the reader to question perceived ways of thinking in order that more creative and appropriate solutions are found to problems.

Anyone who has had children will know that the most difficult question that you can be asked as a parent is `Why?'. Most of us will trot out the standard answers, but this book will allow you to think that there are different ways of doing things.

From getting you to be a better conversationalist, to being able to grapple with previously daunting maths problems this book promotes a different path. It says that the brain is a muscle that needs to be exercised similar to other muscles in the body, and that repetitive thinking will only hasten its decline.

By following the simple techniques identified in this book, Paul Sloane is trying to get us to be better people; to be the people that we know are inside us; people that we want to be.

`How to be a Brilliant Thinker' is essential if you want to be more than you are, and are not afraid to think outside the box to achieve it. If you don't know how to do this, then Paul Sloane's book will tell you how. It is to its credit that I have tried some of his techniques and although I still cannot tell jokes, I am trying. This is a book that can literally enhance lives.How to be a Brilliant Thinker: Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good general guide 8 May 2010
By Andy Green
Format:Paperback
Paul Sloane has produced a good, easy-to-read general guide to thinkings skills, drawing on a wide range of resources and tools.
As the book's sub title says, it exercises your mind and can help you find creative solutions.

It is a useful primer for more detailed, specialist texts.
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