Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

CREATIVITY IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT
If the truth were known, you are an 
idea-generating organism
. Cre-
ativity is your birthright. You are a highly intelligent individual with
a continuous flow of good ideas that you can use to accomplish
Think Like a Genius
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goals and improve your life. In fact, even if you have not used your
creativity for a long time, and most people have not, you can stir it
up, like sugar that has sunk to the bottom of a cup of coffee, by
stimulating your mind with methods that we will talk about in the
next chapter.
There is a Law of Probabilities that applies to creative thinking
and tapping into the powers of your mind. This law says that the
more ideas that you are exposed to, the more likely it is that you will
be exposed to the right idea, exactly when you need it.
The most successful people today are those who are constantly
exposing themselves to new ideas from a variety of sources. Unsuc-
cessful people, in contrast, are those who continue to recirculate the
same tired old ideas with little imagination or creativity.
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