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Brainstorm Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions PhD Eric Maisel Ann Maisel 9781577316213 Books

The thing I love about this book and all the other books I have read by Eric Maisel is that they have such a thorough-going practical application. This book has helped me increase my productivity on my important projects by at least 100 percent. If you are stuck and procrastinating over important tasks, this book provides the proverbial kick up the........ but does it in such an elegant manner you barely notice.


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Brainstorm Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions PhD Eric Maisel Ann Maisel 9781577316213 Books Reviews

After hearing Eric Maisel, the author of Brainstorm on an NPR program I purchased the book. It was excellent and very inspiring. If you have ever had an idea to write, this will help you get started. This book gives you tools you stop procrastinating with excellent techniques and suggestions. I bought 6 more copies and gave as gifts.
Amazing book to have and to learn from.

Someone who loves to know how the brain works, will love to read this.
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I like Maisel. I found his book The Atheist's Way Living Well Without Gods useful and, for lack of a better word, inspiring. So much so that I tracked down a couple of his other books and started to read them as well, and added Brainstorm to my Wish List the day I learned it was coming out.

But here's the thing for someone who is a creativity coach, his body of work does not show a great deal of creativity. Not only do I not seeing Maisel producing notable works of, say, literature or film or art, but even the books he creates tend to be pretty much the same sort of advice over and over, with minor variations in emphasis. As good as I found Atheist's Way, it's hard not to conclude after seeing the efforts that came before or after it that it might not have been just one more marketing trick, one more way to package some advice that is very sound, very excellent--but not very original--for an additional audience. In one sense there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, and I was grateful for the nod to atheists' hard work of creating meaning and wresting meaning from a universe that does not easily yield it.

In another sense, though, it's hard to escape the sarcastic voice in my head when I read "Brainstorm" saying something along the lines of, "Physician, heal thyself." Don't preach to me about the crucial nature of creativity, of productive obsessions, when you have been writing the same book for several years now.

That, however, is a meta-criticism across the entirety of Maisel's output. Taken by itself, Brainstorm is a good book. It is a clear, concise, cogent prod to creativity and actually taking the steps, doing the work, absolutely essential to having the kind of life one can feel good about and proud of. That's a terrifically valuable assertion to make, and the advice is top-drawer. All that being said, I wish that someone as obviously talented as Maisel is could move beyond his obsession for marketing a few good ideas and get a brainstorm about some new contribution to make. I have no doubt it could be momentous.
Brainstorm - nice read/reminder of the vast amount of brainpower we can tap into on our own behalf.. There's always more brain in s than we will ever use!!
I really wanted to like this book, and I do - to a point.

There are excellent points made in the book - about choosing the direction of your mental energy, not wasting your obsessions, turning off bad obsessions, and brainstorming with intention. These fall under a general distrust of "scope creep." Very important to keep in mind and something I've recently taken more serious to great benefit.

But the majority of the book is filler - fluff stories and anecdotals that extend the page count and justify the seller's cost I assume. These junk sentences surround, and at times smother, the good and valuable nuggets of wisdom that give life to this author's argument.

This is an okay book with very good points made. Don't waste your time reading every sentence - skim this book, highlight the important segments (they pop) and don't let the rest frustrate you. Accept it for what it is and use the few and good from these pages to your advantage.
The thing I love about this book and all the other books I have read by Eric Maisel is that they have such a thorough-going practical application. This book has helped me increase my productivity on my important projects by at least 100 percent. If you are stuck and procrastinating over important tasks, this book provides the proverbial kick up the........ but does it in such an elegant manner you barely notice.