The Universal Traveller: A Guide to Creativity, Problem Solving & the Process of Reaching Goals

I actually took a 9-month course of study with Don & Jim 1973-4 at the School of Architecture, Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo, Ca. It was based solely on their 1st Edition. What an incredible time it was! A diamond mine on the creative process and it's practical application. Study and apply the wisdom of this book and you will be all the better for it.

Universal Traveler is a must read for anyone that wants some assistance figuring out how to get from here to there in your life. I also recommend their sequel, Values Tech. Get it and get it on.

Fantastic book. I have owned this book since 1974 and I love it. The author's approach to problem solving is just as inventive today as it was then. The book is a guide to using your creativity to think out of the box and arrive at unexpected solutions and goals.

I stumbled across this book in a bookstore in 1971, shortly after it was initially published. It has been, and continues to be, one of the most important books I have ever read. It is true that the UT is a tremendous aid in unlocking a creative spirit necessary to various design problem situations. But the real power of the book is to be found when it is applied to all aspects of one's life in general. This is due to the fact that, for those more philosophically minded, The Universal Traveler method embodies a "moderate realist" approach to reality. In the process of solving problems, or improving situations as Koberg and Bagnall term it, you can make tremendous discoveries regarding both the structure of reality and, most important, the character of your self. Should you choose to purchase and use this book, I would like to offer you some advice: read the book twice and then use it exactly as Koberg and Bagnall suggest. Start with small and limited projects and develop your understanding of the method before you move on to bigger and more complex ones. ** You will only unlock the power of this work by using the method. "" And, lastly, I would highly recommend you find one of the early editions, 1971 to 1976. There was a magic in the early work that seems to have been lost in the more "improved" editions. I would like to thank publicly both Don Koberg and Jim Bagnall for having written this book. I can state without hesitation that it ranks among the top 10 books I have ever read. I use the UT process/method daily. As I have said over the years to the countless people to whom I have recommended this book, " . . . it is worth its weight in gold." Happy Traveling!

I purchased this book in the early nineties because it was a required book for a design methods 101 class within a four-year design program. It would have been worth my while to have read it in it's entirety then but, unfortunately, I failed to do so until years after I had received my degree. Having done so earlier may have saved me years of frustration of not fully understanding creative idea generation and development, and consequently, not realizing I was working with and for people who fostered, out of the same ignorance of the creative problem solving process, a non-creative work environment. I have since read The Universal Traveler many times as it has become a major source in my own intellectual inquiry into the psychology of creative problem solving. This is a must read for anyone who values creative thought and who desires the freedom only process awareness can bring. Seperate yourself from the pretenders.

I first found this book in 1974. I still have it. This book approaches problem solving and personal values within the framework of a travel guide. How do you get from HERE to THERE?Well, how do you get to New York from Los Angeles? How do you determine that New York is even where you want to go in the first place?Simple, without TELLING you what to decide, it SHOWS you how to decide for yourself.