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Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds [Kindle Edition]

Scott Berkun (Author)

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Product Description

This definitive best-of collection of one of the web’s best young writers is packed with provocations and entertainments, guaranteed to make you think and smile. You’ll learn to find passion, think free, manage time, pay attention and more. Fast paced, inspiring and memorable, you'll find new ideas and inspirations on every page.

Essays include:

- How to be a free thinker
- The Cult of busy
- Why smart people defend bad ideas
- Street smarts vs. Book smarts
- Hating vs. loving
- Why the world is a mess
- How to make a difference

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 457 KB
Print Length: 196 pages
Publisher: Berkun Media, LLC (21 Oct 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B0062F5QO2
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #23,876 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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Engaging and thought provoking 8 Dec 2011

By Dr Paul

Format:Kindle Edition

Downloaded the Kindle edition this morning after seeing someone I follow tweet about it.

I've just finished it now. It was an "oh, just one more essay" affair until I realise I've spent almost the entire day reading and I've finished the book.

I can't say I agree with all the essays, but that's the point. I suspect Scott Berkum would be surprised and disappointed if you did.

This is definitely a book I'm going to leave on my phone and dip back into repeatedly after I've let the ideas percolate a little...

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Witty and provoking essays on creativity, innovation and other 21st century fixations 5 Dec 2011

By Smaranda Calin

Format:Paperback

If you are not yet familiar with Scott's work, this is a great place to start. The book is a collection of short essays that tries to provoke the 'curius mind' into rethinking some of the ideas we have about innovation, creativity, passion and generally... Life. Utterly entertaining due to the authors's witty, cordial and light weight writing style, I found it to be one of those books that you read a few pages at a time and then let your mind ponder on. Definitely worth it!

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Scott Berkun Can't Actually Say That, Can He? 25 Jan 2012

By James Fruchterman - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

What's unusual about this book is the incredible directness of the author's ideas. Reading most books, you need to work to translate the author's text into your internal voice. Scott Berkun in this book manages the art of speaking directly into my brain: no need to work hard to translate what he means: it's crystal clear.

Example: the opening line of "How to Detect Bull****" is: "Everyone lies: it's just a question of how, when, and why."

That's not to say these essays don't make your brain work. The author is mostly tackling tough issues, and rips away the veneer and the nice stories we tell ourselves to rapidly get to the core of the issue. These are ideas you can use, if you're willing to go along and break your normal patterns. And, these essays are short enough that you can go back and reread them. Yes, he really did say that. Hmmm, interesting!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Un-put-downable!! 7 Nov 2011

By Sujit Pal - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

Just finished reading the free ebook (the author offered a free download from his site for a limited period). I haven't read any of his other titles, nor his blogs. But this book was so interesting that I read it in a single sitting. Many times during the book I found myself mentally agreeing with him, specifically when he talks about the role of effort in innovation, or the fact that innovation is really a combination of other innovations that preceded it, or the distinction between "work creative" and "personal creative". It also contains very useful gems such as how to offer criticism and how to take it, and many other things to improve the quality of one's life at both work and personal life. The writing is fast-paced, witty and from the heart. If you are in a field that requires innovation, this book has many useful insights that you can use right now.

Thank you, Scott Berkun, for compiling your essays into this great book, and offering it free (otherwise I would never have read it and never known what I was missing). I plan on reading your other books as well now.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Provocative and focused collection of essays 4 Nov 2011

By Simon Moore - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

This is the most provocative book I've read in months. The ideas contained in the essays are persuasive and it's a fun, well focused read. Ideally, I'd like the book to be longer than 30 relatively short essays (hence 4 stars, not 5) but the quality bar is super-high and everything is well written in Scott's energetic and personal style, and a does a great job of making you take a step back and think/reflect. The essays are short enough that even if one of them isn't your thing, you're pretty quickly on to the next one.

To give examples of essays they include topics like "How to give and receive criticism", which describes how criticism isn't just about your own views and a perspective and a single correct answer, but also about thinking how different people will interpret the thing that's being criticized. Many of the essays tend to be motivational such as "The surprise inspiration of death" or "How to be passionate".

As the author discloses, the essays in this book can also be found on his blog, but either because of the editorial work that's gone into the book or because of simply reading it on my Kindle rather than a webpage I found it a much more engaging experience than hunting around on the web.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it. If you're into the writing style of Malcom Gladwell or Michael Lewis then it's a reasonable bet that you'll enjoy this, and it's sufficiently short and focused that it's a very easy book to get through.

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