Lee Thayer tells us that whenever someone says “I think,” you can be reasonably sure that they are not. Thinking is hard work.

“Thinking is like improvising music. All the fundamentals have to be at your command without thinking about them. Years of practice may enable you to think out of the box.

And I stopped. How does one practice creative thinking? And that’s when I thought of Joe. Joe Anderson always cracks me up because he has a different way of looking at the world. And now he shares his secret in a new book called That Thing Between Your Ears is an Idea. It’s one of the only books that accurately describes creative thoughts and how to get them. Available on Kindle.

Disclosure, I am not on commission and Joe still cracks me up.