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that we have charged the word “creative” with meaning
something truly extraordinary. Picasso was creative.
Meryl Streep is creative. Wyclef Jean is creative. But
me?
So one of the ways to get started creating goals and
action plans is to just “make them up,” like you did as a
kid. Think of creating in simpler terms. Think of it as
something all humans do very easily. French psycholo-
gist Emile Coue said, “Always think of what you have to
do as easy and it will be.”
45. Put on your game face
I used to hate to study for tests in high school. Noth-
ing could have been more boring. But one day Terry Hill
and I decided to make a game of it. We decided to chal-
lenge each other by making up mock tests for each other.
The only rules were that we had to ask 30 questions,
and the answers had to appear in the text that we were
going to be tested on in the classroom the next day.
Because we were both competitive and loved games,
we worked very hard to come up with the most ridicu-
lously difficult questions we could devise. “What was
Magellan’s middle name?” “How many of Custer’s chil-
dren were daughters?” “What is the 23rd word in the
Gettysburg Address?” We also tried to anticipate the
other’s toughest questions and learn the obscure answers.
On the morning of the real test we presented each
other with our own tests, always twice as hard as the
real test. As we each took each other’s test there was
much happy yelling and laughter. But by the time we
took the real test in school, we were more than ready.
In fact, we often looked across the classroom at each
other during the real test and rolled our eyes with dis-
dain at the simplicity and stupidity of the real exam.