The Power of Creative Intelligence: 10 ways to tap into your creative genius Paperback – June 11, 2001

Good, but not great. Kind of like a Cliff Notes of his work without a step-by-step workflow of how to accomplish any of it. His other work is easily 5 out of 5, choose using both sides of the brain or mind maps to learn how to accomplish any of this.

I am not familiar with this author and his previous work but I am aiming to learn more about creativity and using my mind to accomplish more and learn faster.This book was a pleasant surprise. Packed with insights on how to start thinking more creatively and stories about famous thinkers of history (Da Vinci, Einstien, Newton) used their minds.Some of the suggestions discussed: use illustrations in your note taking, generate ideas - your power to generate ideas is infinite, see the relationships between things, improve your vocabulary, brainstorm, slow down, etc.The key to it all is associations. In physics and nature and other things, there are similar systems and ideas.Relate to new ideas by forming associations to what you already know.Listen to different types of music, read a variety of books and read often.I really liked this book and see it as a start to my journey to understanding creativity.

This book is mostly about saying idea generation is creativity. It is not! The stories given are trite, the puzzled do not work, and the mind mapping idea works no better than any other form of noting or brainstorming. Lots of snakeoil and greasy writing. Tony Buzan is a self acclaimed guru, and has a cult following. Apart from that he is the most successful exagerter on the guru circuit. He manages to make the same claims as others who have been prosecuted through litigation, but he does it in a way to remain unscathed. Pretty sneaky stuff.RegardsDRally