Overview

What does it take to re-think anything in your life? Sometimes nothing short of turning your whole world upside down. Slow down your thinking for a moment. What is your brain doing? Almost certainly trying to come up with a single right answer because then you can stop thinking about the problem. All too often we are not really thinking, but sleepwalking through life. Fresh angles on familiar problems elude us. Re-thinking is the opposite: it means seeing better or different solutions. In other words, thinking as unusual. Rethink shows you why and how. What if today you were to . . . Buy a new newspaper? Take a different route home? Say ‘yes’ to everything your partner asks? Invent new rituals for your family? Surround yourself with beauty? Try a first take at the creative fantasy sleeping in the attic of your mind? Find a new hero? Discover more about your upbringing? Act as if anything were possible rather than yes-butting the new? You’d be a re-thinker. Why not? There’s always a better or different solution to the way you lead your personal or professional life. Rethink will help you to stop living on autopilot and reawaken your sense of wonder, curiosity, and creativity.

Full Product Details

Author:   Nigel May Barlow (Service Legends Ltd, UK) ,  Nigel May Barlow
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Capstone Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781841126951

ISBN 10:   1841126950
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   13 April 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Thank you ix Dedication x Introduction 1 1 The way we see things 11 Borrowing the perceptions of others 23 New fantasies, new heroes 28 Spring-clean your beliefs 33 2 Awakening curiosity 39 Open-page thinking 53 New people, new ideas 57 Things to be curious about 62 3 Intuition and eureka 71 Accelerating eurekas 84 Mind the gap 88 Idleness and the environment for intuition 92 4 Paying attention 99 Taking a bat's view 116 Family rituals 120 There's no present like the time 125 5 Co-creation 131 Blue thinking 144 A question of style 148 6 Funny bones 151 Ah-aha-haha! 161 7 Simply beautiful 171 Surround yourself with beauty 183 8 Storytime! 187 Writing and living your story 200 9 Meditation 211 Just do it! 224 10 You, me, us – relationships 225 Relate! 243 11 The biggest re-think of all 247 Coda – Acting as if 255 Appendix 1 – The Re-Think research 257 Appendix 2 – Re-think resources 271 About Nigel Barlow 275 Index 277

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...a very engaging book to read... (Easy Jet In-flight, July 2006) ...an absolute delight...truly innovative and interesting...lively and amusing (Start Your Business, October 2006) ...the book is packed full of so many interesting little stories and quotes that you'll find yourself smiling the whole way through...the book is a valuable asset to your business life, and I have definitely recommended it to more than a few people since reading it...this is a must-read for everyone interested in business - from the established CEO to the budding entrepreneur, it will encourage innovative thinking in your business world. (Start Your Business, October 2006) This latest book will certainly provoke thought...an entertaining read. (Bracknell News,Thurs 24th May)

...a very engaging book to read... (Easy Jet In-flight, July 2006) ...an absolute delight...truly innovative and interesting...lively and amusing (Start Your Business, October 2006) ...the book is packed full of so many interesting little stories and quotes that you'll find yourself smiling the whole way through...the book is a valuable asset to your business life, and I have definitely recommended it to more than a few people since reading it...this is a must-read for everyone interested in business - from the established CEO to the budding entrepreneur, it will encourage innovative thinking in your business world. (Start Your Business, October 2006) This latest book will certainly provoke thought?an entertaining read. (Bracknell News,Thurs 24th May)

...a very engaging book to read... (Easy Jet In-flight, July 2006) ...an absolute delight...truly innovative and interesting...lively and amusing (Start Your Business, October 2006) This latest book will certainly provoke thought...an entertaining read. (Bracknell News,Thurs 24th May)

Author Information

Nigel May Barlow is a re-thinker, agent provocateur, and creative presenter to many of the world's leading organizations. He has inspired individuals and companies around the world to creatively re-think their lives and businesses. His last book was Batteries Included! - Creating Legendary Customer Service. Nigel is well known for this entertaining and inspiring presentations. After a wrong early career choice, he learnt that you could have far more fun as a a re-thinker. He lives in Oxford, England and Heathrow Departures Lounge.  

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