Somewhere in here is a book that could change your life…
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Comments: LOTS of riffs and rants. It’s vintage Seth Godin – asking us to push for the extraordinary.. Very good collection of ideas. I enjoyed reading it.
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Comments: I enjoyed reading the book – short, easy to get through and high on impact. It convinced me that I was a creative genius and hidden (deep) inside was a great artist, musician, poet and the like. :-) Most importantly, inspired me to try a hand at poetry for a while and encouraged me to take a few ‘creative’ shots! In this book, Tony Buzan attempts (rather successfully in my view) to convince us that we are all brimming with creativity and ideas that only got stamped out of us because of some unfortunate incident as a child. The book tries to bring out that creativity and encourages us to practice it regularly.
It was a fun read.
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Comments: Super entertaining, super informative and lots of fun to read. Classic Bill Bryson with a science focus.
What to expect: As the title goes, a ‘short history of nearly everything’. It is one of those books that makes learning fun and moves seamlessly (for the most part) from one topic to another. One big realization that hit me was how all things in our universe are interconnected..
A note – While great for expanding perspective, I don’t remember a lot of specifics from the book but yet remember how it increased my curiosity about inventors, inventions and ideation in itself.
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