Creative thinkering : putting your imagination to work / Michael Michalko.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Once we were creative -- The same old ideas -- How to think like a genius -- The first idea -- Why didn't i think of that? -- Leonardo da Vinci's secret -- Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change -- Ticktock or tocktick -- Thinking the unthinkable -- Ideas from God -- Intention is the seed of creative thinking -- Change the way you speak, and you change the way you think -- You become what you pretend to be.

Shows readers how to liberate thinking and expand imagination by learning to synthesize dissimilar subjects, think paradoxically, and enlist the help of the subconscious mind.