Power Up Your Mind: Learn faster, work smarter

You can’t be creative at work

You don’t know how to be creative

You are terrified of change

You don’t know how to change

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Possible causes

You are not fixing it in your brain

carefully enough.

What to do

Review things regularly, after an hour,

a day, and a month. Try muttering,

see page 129.

Possible causes

Too many of the seven seriously

uncreative sins are on display.

Your full range of intelligences is not

being realized.

What to do

Leave. Or find some like-minded peo-

ple who can work with you to change

the organization from within.

Read Chapter 9 for ideas on how you

might do this.

Possible cause

Nobody has ever taught you how to

think creatively.

What to do

Try some of the ideas in Chapter 9.

Possible cause

You are human! If we are truthful,

most of us find change challenging.

But you don’t need to be terrified.

What to do

Try some of the approaches on page

218.

Possible cause

You have always been a passive recipi-

ent of change.

What to do

Take control! Learn to predict some

of the feelings that commonly go

along with change. Use some of the

ideas on page 211.