Accidental Genius :Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content

Publication subTitle :Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content

Author: Levy Mark  

Publisher: Berrett Koehler‎

Publication year: 2010

E-ISBN: 9781605096513

Subject: H315 Writing, Rhetoric

Keyword: 经济学

Language: ENG

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Description

When it comes to creating ideas, we hold ourselves back. That's because inside each of us is an internal editor whose job is to forever polish our thoughts so we sound smart and in control and so we fit into society.
 
But what happens when we encounter problems where such conventional thinking fails us? How do we get unstuck?
 
For Mark Levy, the answer is freewriting, a technique he's used for years to solve all types of business problems and generate ideas for books, articles, and blog posts.
 
Freewriting is deceptively simple: start writing as fast as you can, for as long as you can, about a subject you care deeply about, while ignoring the standard rules of grammar and spelling. Your internal editor won't be able to keep up with your output—you'll generate breakthrough ideas and solutions that you couldn't have created any other way.
 
Levy shares his six secrets to freewriting as well as fifteen problem-solving and creativity-stimulating principles you can use if you need more firepower—seven of which are new to this edition. Also new to this edition: an extensive section on how to refine your raw freewriting into something you can share with the world.

Chapter

Part One: The Six Secrets to Freewriting

1. Secret #1: Try Easy

2. Secret #2: Write Fast and Continuously

3. Secret #3: Work against a Limit

4. Secret #4: Write the Way You Think

5. Secret #5: Go with the Thought

6. Secret #6: Redirect Your Attention

Part Two: Powerful Refinements

7. Idea as Product

8. Prompt Your Thinking

9. Open Up Words

10. Escape Your Own Intelligence

11. The Value in Disconnecting

12. Using Assumptions to Get Unstuck

13. Getting a Hundred Ideas Is Easier Than Getting One

14. Learn to Love Lying

15. Hold a Paper Conversation

16. Drop Your Mind on Paper

17. The Writing Marathon

18. Doubt Yourself

19. The Magic of Exact Writing

20. Extract Gold from a Business Book

21. You Are What You Focus On

Part Three: Going Public

22. Sharing Your Unfinished Thoughts

23. Help Others Do Their Best Thinking

24. Notice Stories Everywhere

25. Build an Inventory of Thoughts

26. Write Your Own Rules

27. The Fascination Factor

28. Freewrite Your Way to Finished Prose

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

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