Think Like a Genius: The Ultimate User's Manual for Your Brain

by Todd Siler

Book Overview

From the publisher who brought readers Emotional Intelligence comes a new book that profiles metaphorming, a brilliant method for jump-starting creativity and productivity. Each chapter reveals,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553379283
• ISBN13: 9780553379280
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Think Like a Genius by Todd Siler

The author presents some theoretical concepts relevant to the formulation of new ideas/knowledge. Some reviewers of the work were not enthused; however, others found it very helpful. I gave the book a good rating because the author addressed some highly complex thinking processes utilizing simple steps. The word CREATE is utilized as a key to doing the following: - Connect (ideas) - Relate ( explain the ideas in a story format) - Explore ( test the idea in its major manifestations) - Analyze ( perform a rigid analysis) - Transform ( make the idea into a practical reality) - Experience ( cast the idea into the experiential domain) The book encourages us to design our own learning environment, to record everything we think relating to major ideas , to simplify and persist until success is achieved. Role playing is another key ingredient for testing our ideas within a practical context. This book is well-written and the ideas contained are practical. The appeal is to a wide audience of the reading population.

A Mind Opener

This book helped me open my eyes and mind so much that I have decided to write my very first book review.... It will truly help you make connections and find meaning in a lot of things that are common in everyday lives. The biggest lesson I learned from the book is that I should never take things for granted but ask questions as to why they are.

Metaphorming is like oxygen - it's there and you need it

At the heart of genius thinking is the process that Todd Siler has defined as Metaphorming. It's the process of transferring and transforming new meanings and associations from one object or idea to another.The process of Connection, Discovery, Invention and Application is at the core of genius thinking. It is both simple and common sense, to the extent that some may discount its true power. However, to do this is to reject a very powerful concept - anyone is capable of genius thinking.Emerson said "Common sense is genius in its everyday clothes". This is what gave me the insight that everyone has the potential to Think Like a Genius, if we only knew how. This book shows you how.

Great book

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.

A lucid, convincing way to learn how to live at your peak

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.