Think Naked: Childlike Brilliance in the Rough Adult World

First off, I have to say that I agree with the other reviewer regarding editing: the Jodere group consistently publishes books with very bad editing, sometimes using several semi-colons in one sentence...ALL the time. Aggravating. 5 Stars for content, zero for editing.Shoddy editorship aside, the information in this book is helpful and even fascinating. Author, marketer, corporate anarchist, and founder of Marco Polo Explorers, Marco Marsan was named one of America's top Out-of-the-Box thinkers by the Mazda Corporation. Think Naked came out earlier this year, and it's a delightful book about re-discovering child-like brilliance. Marsan has something interesting things to say on the inside flap of his book: "Dr. Seuss once described adults as 'obsolete children'. Extensive studies show that there is a 98 percent chance you were a creative genius before age four. Business week magazine says that a 40-year old adult is about two percent as creative as a five-year-old child. Findings like these tell us that creative genius isn't something you find--it's something that you've merely, and perhaps, only temporarily lost." Some chapters in this book include You Were A Genius:Discovering the childlike brilliance you were born with, See Saw:Balancing the combination of kidlike genius with your adult wealth of experience, Wear Your Cape:How to create conditions that encourage risk-taking without fear, and Show And Tell:How to get in touch with your passions and your exuberance.Throughout the book, Marsan gives fascinating examples from scientific studies, pop-culture, trends, nature, and other sources to illustrate just how in the box many of us remain--especially when it comes to personal satisfaction and creativity.This book is a lot of fun to read, and stimulates thinking outside of conventional, plodding thought patterns. Refreshing and bold, it's sure to be a welcome addition for the library of a manager or business professional, and for anyone wanting to infuse the zest of new perspectives into their lives.

What a truly inspirational book! A MUST read for the uptight, uninspired, tired, bored, same-ol'-same-ol' one in your life. Can't see the forest yourself anymore? Read it! (Then buy a copy for your boss because he surely needs it more than you!!).Thanks, Marco!

Michael Michalko, I'm the author of the creative thinking books "Thinkertoys" and "Cracking Creativity" and have known Peter Lloyd for many years. Peter is a contributor to Marco Marsan's "Think Naked" and encouraged me to review it. This book is an excellent guide on how to become creative and alive again. We see people who are wonderfully alive and people who are depressed and defeated every day. Once, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, in a café in Old Montreal I saw a woman rise from her table and for no reason started to sing opera. She had a certain smile and I knew she was perfectly at home with herself. She was wearing a great wide hat, her arms were flung out in an expansive gesture, singing, and utterly oblivious to everything but what was in her and around her at that second. Even as you read this, you are thinking of people you know who are alive and people who are lifeless.This woman was wonderfully alive and self-creating. When you meet a person like the woman in Montreal you get this vague feeling inside you that you "ought to be" something more. You already know this feeling. We get this feeling when we recognize the thing in others that we long to be. This feeling seems so trivial, so fundamental that we ought to be like that, that we dare not admit it to others. We long to become more alive and creative in our personal and business lives. The feeling for it is the most primitive feeling which a person can have. The feeling for it is as primitive as the feeling for your own well being. "Think Naked" will help you become what you ought to be. It reminded me to dance every day if only in my mind.

I must say that I am extremely impressed with this book as a whole-It's put together well and is a breeze to read. All of the concepts are extremely well thought out and easily applicable to daily life. I'm on my way to being a Naked Thinker but due to about 23 years of extensive "hardwiring",as Marsan calls it, its not something that's gonna happen overnight. I keep this book by my bed and I try to reread a couple of pages a day and work them into my daily routine. I must say that it feels great so far, and I've begun to make so many much needed changes in my life. This is by far one of the most brilliant books I've ever read as far as being something that you can apply to daily life and it can only improve and enhance your current life. No doubt I'm going to be recommending this book to just about everyone I know. This book has definitely helped me in so many ways and will be extremely useful to my success and happiness in my career, relationships, and the way I live my life.

Wow. This book really blew my mind...Marco sounds like a nutter who really knows what he's talking about. The idea of "Thinking Naked" seems really simple, but yet so effective. I picked this up the first week it came out when I was visiting Cincinnati (the author's hometown) when I heard him speaking at a bookstore. If you're looking for the perfect book to give the jaded corporate worker in your life, this is it.