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How thinking like Einstein can make you rich!

We all face problems in our lives, so wouldn't it be great if we could just give them to someone else to solve, and finding a genius at solving problems is the perfect answer!

We all use mental reference points to orientate our way through life; Like where our feet are in relationship to the ground, or remembering exactly what we are about to do next.

These form our mind map that navigates us along our lives and influences our emotional attachments, personal resilience, outlook on life and our problem solving mental paths too. Many thing are hardwired into our brain, and many are not. If you are one of those people for whom brainstorming problems for creative new or even original solutions is hard, then Einstein might be able to help you today!

You see, because we all as individuals think in our own unique ways, we all have different strengths and weaknesses in the ways we solve problems. For example, I think in a spatial and artistically creative way, extremely laterally, whereas you might think in a very linear or logical way, or perhaps in another different way that is individual to you alone.

The point is: why not maximize the way we think as an individual instead of adhering to any set paths or methods. So how did Einstein do it? He was a great admirer of our childish sense of wonder and imagination, and was very rebellious in his thinking and behaviour, even when quite young. To such a degree, that I believe that when a sibling was born, and presented to him for the very first time, his first comment, coming from his unique perspective, was something akin to 'Yes, but where are it's wheels?!!'

At first this comment may sound slightly childish even simple, or slightly mad. But the Einstein thought process seems to have been especially based not on what was obvious or most apparent, but by what was NOT apparent, or even missing altogether!

In other words, the 'normal', usual mental reference points most people use to think;

EINSTEIN COULD METHODICALLY REMOVE THESE COMPLETELY! This freed up his thinking from the immediate limitations of 'normality thinking'- as most of us rationalize and form our perspectives of our world. This key removal of all mental limitations feels to some people like 'allowing the floor to drop away from under them' and it can be quite an un-nerving feeling of a total loss of balance; that's how strong we use reference points in our mind to rationalize our lives and our perceived reality. (We all live in our own mental worlds totally unique to each one of us, and created literally by our own minds perceptions of what our 'reality' is.)

This process is not 'normal' everyday thinking, but a way of opening your mind to every possibility and permutation of an original solution available in the known universe and beyond! It's not a strained kind of thinking where logic dominates, but a floating kind of release of your mind, where you allow anything to enter and your gut instincts, emotions and whole being are involved as one force, drawing in with ease and attracting a stream of the wonderful and incredible, sublime and seemingly ridiculous or impossible. This is the twighlight zone where the impossible questions get answered.

I think it strange that so many people these days think they need drugs to get what they need, to achieve what their own minds do naturally - you might like to try getting 'out of your box' too sometime: The answers you find 'there' could change your life for the better!