
Thinkertoys
A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques
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Kaleo Griffith
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Michael Michalko
About this listen
Rethink the way you think.
In hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. But how can you be the person who comes up with those ideas?
In this revised and expanded edition of his groundbreaking Thinkertoys, creativity expert Michael Michalko reveals life-changing tools that will help you think like a genius. From the linear to the intuitive, this comprehensive handbook details ingenious creative-thinking techniques for approaching problems in unconventional ways. Through fun and thought-provoking exercises, you'll learn how to create original ideas that will improve your personal life and your business life. Michalko's techniques show you how to look at the same information everyone else and see something different.
With hundreds of hints, tricks, tips, tales, and puzzles, Thinkertoys will open your mind to a world of innovative solutions to everyday and not-so-everyday problems.
Includes a PDF of Supplemental Graphics, Exercises, and Illustrations
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2017 Michael Michalko (P)2017 Random House AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious - even liberating - audiobook, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints.
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Designers Start Here (missing visual references)
- By sammy k on 09-01-19
By: Don Norman
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Creativity
- The Psychology of Discovery and Invention
- By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
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Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals what leads to these moments - be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab - so that this knowledge can be used to enrich people's lives. Drawing on nearly 100 interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists, to politicians and business leaders, to poets and artists, as well as his 30 years of research, Csikszentmihalyi uses his famous flow theory to explore the creative process.
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squishy
- By GoingGoingGone... on 07-06-16
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The Goal
- A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 30th Anniversary Edition
- By: Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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In this intriguing business novel, which illustrates state-of-the-art economic theory, Alex Rogo is a UniCo plant manager whose factory and marriage are failing. To revitalize the plant, he follows piecemeal advice from an elusive former college professor who teaches, for example, that reduction in the efficiency of some plant operations may make the entire operation more productive. Alex's attempts to find the path to profitability and to engage his employees in the struggle involve the listener; and thankfully the authors' economic models.
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The Goal - still relevant today
- By Wooden Nichols on 05-03-15
By: Eliyahu M. Goldratt, and others
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The War of Art
- By: Steven Pressfield
- Narrated by: Steven Pressfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
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Think of The War of Art as tough love...for yourself. Since 2002, The War of Art has inspired people around the world to defeat "resistance"; to recognize and knock down dream-blocking barriers and to silence the naysayers within us. Resistance kicks everyone's butt, and the desire to defeat it is equally as universal. The War of Art identifies the enemy that every one of us must face, outlines a battle plan to conquer this internal foe, then pinpoints just how to achieve the greatest success.
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War Against Common Sense?
- By Simon Lee on 06-22-19
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The Creative Act
- A Way of Being
- By: Rick Rubin
- Narrated by: Rick Rubin
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, he has learned that being an artist isn’t about your specific output, it’s about your relationship to the world.
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Rick is Art
- By Ira Henke on 01-17-23
By: Rick Rubin
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- SundanceKid
- 10-09-21
Must Listen For Team Leads
Fantastic collection of idea generation techniques. Especially relevant for team leads or management. Those who don't inovate die.
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- Kenneth H. Ferree
- 02-05-25
Creativity
Very creative ideas and samples as well as exercises amazing job Michael! Thank you Michael
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-16-24
write it down
write it down and get to work. make goals. follow PDF close. enjoy your day
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- albrty05
- 01-23-20
PDF required
Not a good book if you are unable to stop and look at the PDF they mention every 5 minutes.
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- Alvin
- 02-04-23
Excellent read many ideas
Excellent book with many ideas I truly value its contents and its contribution to increasing my learning and expanding my mindset
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- Adam Dimmitt
- 09-06-17
Wasted credit.
Dull. Repetitive. Obvious. Maybe worth listening to if you happen to be in solitary confinement and are allowed the choice between this or no human contact for several months. Anything less than 60 days and it'd probably be more psychologically beneficial to contemplate the short and long term consequences of the George W. Bush presidency.
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