Steve Gillman

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Steve Gillman Quick Facts

Main Areas: Creative Thinking, Improving Brainpower, Problem Solving
Career Focus: Author

Steve Gillman is the author of "Beyond Mental Slavery"; "Secrets Of Lucky People"; "Problem Solving Power"; and many other books.

How do we think? How could we think? How does one generate new, creative and useful ideas? Steve's lifetime exploration of these and related questions lead to the creation of his numerous websites, books, newsletters and courses.

http://www.RadicalNewThoughts.com, for example, with Steve's Radical Thinking Course, is about how to have the most creative and profound ideas in all areas of life.

http://www.999ideas.com is a personal collection of ideas and articles on everything from philosophy to politics to inventions.

http://www.IncreaseBrainpower.com, where he publishes his weekly Brainpower Newsletter, has hundreds of pages on how to increase IQ, think more clearly, solve problems and more.

His work is based on two premises: 1. We can reshape the way we think, to generate new and possibly more useful ideas; 2. We can apply our new ideas to real life problems and situations. He enjoys "fun" topics, like using riddles to "wake up" one's lateral-thinking abilities, but always returns to a deeper investigation of the mind and consciousness, because creative thinking techniques are not just mental games, but a means to arrive at useful ideas, new insights and self growth.

Free Articles & Book Excerpts

Critical Thinking Skills

http://www.increasebrainpower.com/critical-thinking.html

Should You Be Open Minded?

http://www.radicalnewthoughts.com/open-minded.html

Assume the Absurd To Sove Problems

http://www.999ideas.com/assume-absurd.html

I Am a Metaphor - The Metaphorical Nature of Consciousness

http://www.metaphorology.com/consciousness-metaphor.html

Rational Mysticism?

http://www.radicalnewthoughts.com/rational-mysticism.html

A Collection of "Ideas" Articles

http://www.999ideas.com

Invention Ideas

http://www.999ideas.com/invention-ideas.html

Beyond Mental Slavery Excerpts

http://www.beyondmentalslavery.com

Steve Gillman Books

Problem Solving Power

http://www.increasebrainpower.com/problem-solving-book.html

Secrets Of Lucky People

http://www.goodlucksecrets.com

100 Ways To Increase Your Mind Power

http://www.increasebrainpower.com/mind-power-book.html

You Aren't Supposed To Know - A Book Of Secrets

http://www.thesecretinformationsite.com

Beyond Mental Slavery

http://www.beyondmentalslavery.com/

101 Weird Ways to Make Money

http://search.ba esandnoble.com/101-Weird-Ways-to-Make-Money/Steve-Gillman/e/9781118014189?r=1&if=N&cm_mmc=Wiley.com-_-k264859-_-j12871747k264859-_-Primary

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Four Tent Camping Tips

The following tent camping tips are meant primarily for those who are backpacking, although some will apply to a stay in a campground as well. Also, the tips here will be most useful for those who like to travel light when in the wilde ess. 1. Test it in the Yard You don’t want to find out that the roof leaks when you are two days away from the nearest road and a freezing rain is falling. Set it up in the yard and inspect it if you haven’t used the tent yet, or if has been stored for a long time. Turn on the hose and test it for leaks. 2.

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Make Money Online - Four Basic Approaches

There are hundreds of ways to make money online, but they each generally fall into one of the four basic approaches outlined below. In our own business, my wife and I have had the best luck with the last two, but each of us is different, and each of these approaches to making money has its advantages and disadvantages. Here’s is a quick look at those plusses and minuses. Employee If you can write, there is always a chance that you can get hired by a company that needs constant new content for their websites. You might also be hired as programmer or web-designer.

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Article Ideas Are Easy

You probably know that distributing your writing through various online outlets is a great way to promote your website or blog, but how do you come up with article ideas? Here are some simple ways to generate as many ideas as you need to keep your fingers busy on that keyboard. Using The News For Article Ideas If you have a blog where you comment on social or political issues, the evening news or the online headlines are great sources of ideas. You can use the news in one of two basic ways. The first is to simply report in your own words what you hear.

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Save Money Using This Negotiating Technique

There is a simple negotiating technique you can use to save money on many purchases. In the world of high-power negotiators, it is referred to as time investment. The simplest description is this: Spend enough time with a seller and he or she is more likely to accept your offer. Time Investment

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Walking Meditation - A New Kind

Traditional walking meditation involves paying close attention to your breathing and every movement of your body as you walk back and forth or in a circle. It can be a refreshing change from sitting still to meditate. But now there is another way to meditate while walking, and it may be more suited to those who don’t want to take the time and effort to learn more traditional methods.

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Signs of Lying and Getting The Truth

Some of the more obvious signs of lying include different answers when you repeat a question, and hesitation in answering. You also can watch for eye movements that differ from the usual. Be careful with these individual signs, since shifty eyes may be normal for some people, even when telling the truth. Compare eye movements and other behaviors to their known tendencies. There are other signs of lying you can learn, but perhaps it is more useful to learn how to get the truth out of a person. That’s what the rest of the tips below cover. Motivation

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Six Real Estate Tips

The real estate tips that follow are meant to help you avoid common and not-so-common mistakes. Buying a house or other property always involves some risk, but there are many ways to reduce those risks. 1. "As Is" Property Inspections Some sellers (including banks) specify that a property is sold "as is." Of course all properties are ultimately sold with no promises other than those made in writing. We take our chances. But if sellers won't allow an inspector into a property, walk away.

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Three Real Estate Investing Secrets

The following real estate investing secrets are not so much secrets as they are principles that are not widely applied and often ignored. Use them and you will have less risk and a greater chance for success. 1. Speed Equals Profit When investing in a fixer upper, many people are tempted to do everything themselves, from repairs to improvements and even selling on their own. Although this can work, if you are not very skilled you can end up spending just as much on some repairs and improvements as it would have cost to pay a contractor.

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Make Money Online - Honestly

I get a lot of newsletters and other emails on how to make money online. One recent newsletter suggested a technique for stealing the use ame of blog posters so that all of their posts were then linked to your website. That's just one of the dirty tricks being used by some internet marketers. I honestly can't imagine wanting to do business that way. Another common trick is to tell people they can have a "free" gift and then making them hand over their email address and wade through a long sale's pitch just to discover that the free gift is a CD that costs $5.99 for "shipping and handling.

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Wealth Creation Means What?

When we hear about wealth creation it is usually presented as gaining money and other valuable assets. Make money, then invest it to grow your net worth - a common formula. Those who look a little deeper see that assets alone don't necessarily pay the bills, stress making your money and assets work for you to produce streams of income. In any case the basic idea as understood by most people is that wealth creation is a matter of accumulation. There is a difference between creation and transference, though.

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Three Ways Of Thinking Outside The Box

We should always be looking for ways of thinking outside the box. It isn't that we will always find a better solution through more creative or non-conventional solutions. But we sometimes will. Maybe that doesn't sound inspiring enough, so let me explain. Suppose you get in the habit of thinking outside the box and you have many interesting, creative, but unusable ideas. So most of the time you fall back on conventional solutions to your problems, whether at home or in business or in the workplace.

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Economic Depression Survival Tips

The following economic depression survival tips are all about preparation. With a bit of street smarts and a willingness to do what's needed you can survive losing everything. But it is better to prevent that from happening in the first place by being prepared for some worst case scenarios. Depression Survival Tips - Keep That Income Keep your job or other income and tough times aren't so tough. In fact, if you are still making the same money when prices are dropping, homes cost less and stocks are on sale, a depression can be an opportunity.

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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Steve Gillman

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! - Dr. Seuss
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
Life is trying things to see if they work. - Ray Bradbury
Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence. - Robert Heinlein
If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking... the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind. - Ayn Rand
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. - Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
To challenge a premise is to open a door for a look at what's inside. We are free to enter or not, stay or leave. But refusing to open that door is to refuse the treasure that may be but a few steps away. - Steve Gillman
Having new ideas is easy - making something of them is where the hard work begins. - Steve Gillman
From the most playful thoughts great truths are discovered. - Steve Gillman
Logic only proves an argument correct according to the terms defined, but reality is never contained in or constrained by our words. - Steve Gillman

How to get started

Subscribe to the weekly Brainpower Newsletter:

http://www.increasebrainpower.com/newsletter.html

Subscribe to the Radical Thinking Course:

http://www.radicalnewthoughts.com

Other highlights

New book by Steve Gillman! Beyond Mental Slavery examines the ways we get trapped in mental processes that limit our thinking and decision-making. Using examples from science, business, the arts, and life in general, the basic problems - and solutions - are spelled out in simple language. Stories and research are used to show how the mind works - or doesn't work. This book is a how-to guide for clearer, more powerful, and more useful thinking. Beyond Mental Slavery is available at Amazon.com and excerpts can be read at http://www.BeyondMentalSlavery.com