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you’re rotting.” Put yourself in areas where you don’t have all the
answers so that you can wonder more, so that you can make up the
answers, so that you can create.
To the latter point, how can you leverage your lessons from this
book?
Practice, practice, practice. The theories and tools covered in this book
might make sense as you absorb them from the comfort of your arm-
chair. But when the heat is on to come up with a new idea, you can for-
get everything you’ve learned and revert to your defective programming
if the new thinking muscles aren’t in shape.
Yogi Amirit Desi, who taught me a great deal years ago, says that,
according to ancient Indian understanding, ignorance does not mean
acting without knowledge (how can you ignore what you never knew?),
but true ignorance means having the knowledge and still ignoring it. If
you hadn’t understood creativity well before you read this book, then
you weren’t acting out of ignorance when your attachment to old ideas
and old methods of thinking held you back. You just didn’t know any
better. If you’ve learned and understood the fundamentals put forth in
this book and you don’t lobotomize your old ideas and your old ways of
thinking, then you are ignorant according to the ancient definition.
Use this stuff tomorrow. As with golf, tennis, or piano lessons, if you
wait a few days to apply what you learned you might as well not have
taken the lesson at all, because you’ll remember only half of what you
learned (if you’re lucky). And when you wind up practicing wrong, it
makes it that much harder to correct the new bad habit the next time.

You are as young as
your spine is flexible.

Ancient yogic saying

You are as young as
your mind is flexible.

Tom Monahan saying