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How to Develop Curiosity 201

The thinking methods featured in this book, 100 MPH Thinking,
Intergalactic Thinking, 180° Thinking, and so on, have been designed
to help all individuals access their dreamer mode. Although the cre-
ative thinking skills I help people develop are quite simple and easy to
learn and use, the biggest challenge is in getting people to let go of the
belief that “creativity is for the chosen few” and the lifelong hit-or-miss
habits they use in problem solving. Most of these habits are learned
only through blind experimentation, with no real certainty of success
at any given time.
The three principal creative thinking traits around which I build
my training have already been mentioned as the three defining charac-
teristics of dreamers: curiosity, an active mind, and a fresh perspective.
See below how my major Do-It-Yourself Lobotomy tools match up to
stimulate these three vital creative thinking traits.

HOW TO DEVELOP CURIOSITY

The creative thinking power tool that can be used to stimulate the same
kind of curiosity that natural dreamers seem to possess in such great
quantity is what I call Ask a Better Question.
Simply by stating your problem or objective in the form of a ques-
tion, you start the mental wheels turning, thus priming the imagina-
tion. Human beings are quite curious by nature. Whereas fully
developed dreamers seem to be curious about almost everything and
are never satisfied with things even if they seem to work quite well,
the rest of us can prompt that inquisitive mind quite simply by asking
a question. And the better the question, the more we stimulate our
natural curiosity.

Creative Thinking Power Tools Dreamer Traits

Ask a Better Question Curiosity

100 MPH Thinking Active Mind

180, Intergalactic, and others Fresh Perspective