"Think Like a Genius" by Todd Siler

Think Like a Genius
The Ultimate User's Manual for Your Brain
by Todd Siler
1996

Excerpts and Quotes Referenced in the Book

John Muir: Climb the mountains and get their tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flow into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

Albert Einstein: The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Jasper Johns: Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

Author: The baseball can symbolize a long-term goal. If you can hit it squarely, it will go far. The beachball can represent a short-term, less ambitious goal. You can hit it easily, but you can't knock it out of the ballpark to score a home run.

Author: Look to children's stories for Inspiration: Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tale, A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh, Shel Silverstein's The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and Norton Juster's The Phantom Toolbooth.

Oscar Wilde: Definition of a cynic: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Author: The television set has become part of our family, a kind of mechanical pet that we care for and seem to enjoy with almost as much affection as a real pet. We feed it out valuable time and give it our undivided attention. We talk about its input as if it were an intimate friend.