The Art Of Creative Thinking by Rod Judkins
This book is a ‘read-at-random’ reference book but frustratingly it did not have a table of contents and chapters run inline so there are no clear breaks to discern.
The lack of a Table of Contents and the author’s suggestion that this not be read in a linear fashion was a point of frustration. I’d like the ability to know when everything has been read for certain so I can archive it pull it down later as a true reference.
I only counted 87 Chapters, not 89, but the last chapter has 8 mini-challenge so it’s somewhere between 87 and 96 tips or “ways”. Perhaps more than one ‘way’ is elaborated in a certain chapter, but that is not clear or evident at a glance.
Table of Contents
1. See what happens when you make something happen – 1
2. Be a beginner forever – 4
3. Blame Michelangelo – 8
4. Be committed to commitment – 10
5. Be the medium of your medium – 13
6. Don’t be someone else – 16
7. Be a generator – 19
8. Be positive about negatives – 21
9. Don’t think about what others think about – 23
10. Doubt everything all the time – 25
11. Feel inadequate – 27
12. Be practically useless – 30
13. Be perceptive about perception – 32
14. Be naturally inspired – 34
15. Don’t be an expert on yourself – 37
16. Be Stubborn about compromise – 39
17. Be a weapon of mass creation – 41
18. Get into what you’re into – 43
19. Cut it out – 45
20. Grow up without growing old – 47
21. If it ain’t broke, break it – 50
22. Pick yourself up – 53
23. Challenge the challenging – 55
24. Find out how to find out – 58
25. Leave an impression – 61
26. Design a difference – 62
27. Be as incompetent as possible – 65
28. Maintain momentum – 68
29. Make the present a present – 69
30. Be mature enough to be childish – 72
31. Aspire to have no goals – 76
32. Open your mind – 78
33. Pause for thoughtlessness – 80
34. Plan to have more accidents – 82
35. If you can’t be really good, be really bad – 85
36. Raise the dead – 88
37. Be a conservative revolutionary – 91
38. Work the hours that work for you – 93
39. Search without finding – 95
40. Don’t overlook the overlooked – 96
41. Put the right thing in the wrong place – 98
42. Stay hungry – 100
43. Surprise yourself – 102
44. Suspend judgment – 104
45. Take advantage of a disadvantage – 106
46.Throw truth bombs – 108
47. Throw yourself into yourself – 109
48. Use shock of awe – 111
49. Value Obscurity – 113
50. Value shared values – 115
51. If something isn’t broken, fix it – 117
52. Light a fire in your mind – 119
53. Discover how to discover – 121
54. To stand out, work out what you stand for – 122
55. To achieve something, do nothing – 124
56. Get into credit – 126
57. Search high and low – 128
58. Mine your mind – 131
59. Look forward to disappointment – 133
60. Think with your feelings – 134
61. Bring chaos to order – 136
62. Take what you need – 138
63. Remake, then remake the remake – 140
64. Be curious about curiosity – 143
65. Become anonymous – 145
66. Achieve the perfect work-life balance – 147
67. Make what you say unforgettable – 148
68. Don’t experiment, BE an experiment – 151
69. Stop missing opportunities – 153
70. Contradict yourself more often – 156
71. Look over the horizon – 158
72. Immerse yourself – 161
73. Cross-pollinate – 164
74. Take jokes seriously – 166
75. Go from a to b via z – 168
76. Never leave improvisation to chance – 171
77. Reject acceptance and accept rejection – 172
78. Be as annoying as possible – 174
79. Get out of your mind – 176
80. Stay playful – 178
81. Don’t follow the herd – 180
82. Project yourself into the future – 182
83. Box your way out of boxes – 185
84. To learn, teach – 186
85. Be an everyday radical – 188
86. Make freedom a career – 191
87. Try This At Home – 193
– Pick a fight with yourself
– Think about your thinking
– Be alone with “friends”
– Look at the overlooked
– Rename yourself
– The object of the object
– Overhear over there
– Make a wish
