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much repetition of the same idea, Behave like a kid. Explore. Trust your creativity. That's it.
It's like a long article where the author cites other authors, At leasttimes per chapter, Forchapters.
So, when he cites other ideas, then he gives example and then he explains them,
To make it clear you will read more or less the same thingtimes, Each chapter.
Why did I read it till the end then Cause I was at a live event where Erik performed and it was alright,
Save yourself some time and read something else, Preferably not in this category, Good book. One of my favorite passages is on page, "The hunger for creativity you feel as an adult is a lot like phantom pain" Many people have an emptiness that they just can't explain.


That passage could be the answer those people are feeling the phantom pain of their creativity shriveling and dying, Just like a muscle, creativity must be used or it withers to nothing, leaving us with unexplained pain I made the mistake of thinking this book would be about creativity.
As an art teacher, I thought I might use some of what I read to inspire my students, Unfortunately, this book is targeted towards people who find themselves stuck in a job they don't enjoy, and how to turn their situation around and the advice seems to be quit the job and find something you love to do, no matter how daring that might be.
Oh, and the author also likes to bring up fairly regularly how successful he is at producing quick paintings that he leaves for others to find,

This is definitely NOT a book about creativity, And unfortunately it offers nothing that the average selfhelp motivational book has already featured, Not as inspiring or informative as I'd hoped it would be, I was looking for concrete ideas or exercises to work through and there isn't much of that, If you've already read a lot of books along this thread, I'd probably skip this one, Its interesting how Erik Wahl creates art masterpieces then gives them away, He often hides them in plain sight and tweets the general location where its at and whoever finds it can keep it, One day, I would love to find one, This book is about tapping into your creative potential and “unthinking” the various counterproductive lessons youve learned throughout your life and tapping into the things we often know innately, He says to “be provocative” and go against the grain,. Step outside your bubble Live with some discomfort Ask for forgiveness, instead of permission,. Start small. He says when you learn to be provocative every day, creativity is always accessible, He says to “be convicted”, Only you knows what makes you come alive and to do that in your work, He talks about being surrendered and knowing your why, like Simon Sinek talks about, The book has lots of good quotes, reminders and challenges to help you become the best version of yourself, I liked it! This book was awful, I would not have finished it if I wasn't reading it for a school book club, The author is an artist and motivational speaker who found his niche after losing a well paying job in corporate america, The premise of his book plays off the famous Picasso quote, "Every child is an artist, The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up, " He then takes readers through a series of recommendations about how to unleash your creativity by thinking like an artist, There are two things that are helpful to understand about this book, First, the author specializes in rapid painting, where he'll do a portrait on stage while giving a talk, His writing is similarly characterized by broad brush strokes and quick stories, but often lacks depth or detail, Second, the series of recommendations he presents actually form an acrostic spelling out PICASSO, but he doesn't reveal this until the very end of the book, While the suprise reveal might work for a TEDstyle talk, I think the reader would have been better served with this information up front, At least it would make his recommendations seem slightly less random when you know he's presenting them as part of a memory tool, If you like to think of yourself as an artist, you might enjoy this book, but otherwise, there are other books on creativity that might serve you better, I'm not interested in learning how to manipulate a crowd, As creativity books go, this one was pretty disappointing, A lot of grand ideas with very little practical application, There's not an original thought in the entire book, Loved it! If you work in corporate world you will appreciate this book, The ideas from this book are great, but difficult to implement, An artist using an anarchist symbol to spell his name, he does a lot of praising about corporate structure,
There are no original ideas in this book and it is more about surviving in the corporate structure than unleashing your creativity, Somewhere deep in the recesses of our mind are the recesses from our grade school, Buried by decades of cruft, these memories and others call us back to the state that we had back then when we knew we were creative, Its a time that we knew we were creative, before we got tied up with how others view us and before the need to be productive and rational, This is the place of Unthink: Rediscover Your Creative Genius,

sitelinkClick here to read the full review I used to think being a rebel at work was the reason I never got ahead at most of my jobs.
Now I realize, I am just an innovator, not happy with the status quo, Makes me wonder how many of the companies that I have worked for could have done monumentally better, had they seen the vision I saw for them, I have always been a visionary, from my days as a paste up artist back in, when I saw the first Macintosh computer and told my coworkers that things in our world were about to change, drastically.
Subtitled “rediscover your creative genius,” this powerful book begins with the authors tale of his dramatic career loss with a wife andyoung kids to his discovering of his true calling as a graffiti artist and inspirational speaker.
He hides his paintings in the town where he will speak called the Art Spot leaving clues, The person who finds the painting gets to keep it, Speaking while painting ahour event he encourages his listeners to discover and practice the artist that was in all of us as children.
The book is full of quotes, recommended readings, research and stories including Steve Jobs, Oswald Chambers, and G, K. Chesteron, among others to support his premise,

Section one speaks of THEN who you were and what was right about you before adulthood came and suppressed your creativity, Key points:
Mystery adds meaning
Ignorance leads to breakthroughs
Later means never
Play is the supreme catalyst

Section two speaks of NOW who you are and what is left of you.
You still have a right brain, just arent using it!

Section three speaks to HOW who you can still be with seven powerful and insightful chapters,

Be provocative
Step outside your bubble, live with some discomfort, ask forgiveness rather than permission, start small

Be Intuitive
Know whats under the surface, loosen your processes, make discovery as valuable as data, let conversations be your proving ground

Be convicted
Do the next thing on your heart, be a catalyst

Be accelerated
Refine your resources.
. . even when you dont have to, refuse to be overwhelmed,

Be spontaneous
Act through the fear, leave room for interruptions

Be surrendered
Surrender the recognition, the labels, the moment, the outcome

Be original
Dance to your own drum, work boldly/uniquely/freely, recruit an ally

Interestingly, in the final chapter, “your Picasso,” Wahl shows his creativity as you record the first letter of each “be” P.
I. C. A. . S. S. O.

Although the primary focus of this excellent book is enhancing your creativity at work, it is just as applicable to the entire process of decision making, creativity, and problemsolving in any situation.
I am using this as one of my textbooks in an Organizational Leadership graduate class,
It felt like the author was lecturing me on how to be more creative in everyday life and work, but was pretty sparse about providing concrete suggestions about how to do so.
i instinctively do many of the things he mentions in this book, and consistently face push back that is strong enough to stop me in my tracks, How to keep moving forward in such a context Erik Wahl is a graffiti artist who no longer sells his art, He is on the corporate speaking circuit and in the course of an hour will paintdifferent pieces, each one done inminutes, He will then give one away, then do an ArtDrop hide a painting somewhere around the city and tweet clues to it's location, and perhaps donate the last one, At least that's what he did when I saw him a Gartner Conference in late April in San Diego,
In Unthink: Rediscover Your Creative Genius, Wahl says this "What you need to know what perhaps no one has ever told you is that an artist is anyone who challenges conventional wisdom and inspires change that creates new channels of problem solving and innovation.
Art is not only a noun it is a verb, It is not only a canvas it is a catalyst, Art is far less about the physical thing created than about the effect of your ideas, words, and creations on your circumstances and the others around you, "

He then presents his views on how to get there using Picasso as his framework:
P Provacative
I Intuitive
C Convicted
A Accelerated
S Spontaneous
S Surrendered
O Original

I thoroughly enjoyed this book I read each section slowly as he challenged me to think differently about what creativity really is.
I recommend it to anyone who thinks "they don't have a creative bone in them, "
I found this book to be a lot of fluff, There is nothing you haven't heard before, You would be more inspired by reading a motivational quote which he inserts often throughout the book, This read more like a biography than a plan to "rediscover your creative genius, " This was very interesting. I consider myself to be creative, but not necessarily an artist, I write fiction and have the constant urge to craft, but I have not really tapped into my full potential, This book is inspirational in the sense that it tries to get you to see the world in a completely different way, I am still in college and therefore do not have a monotonous job to apply these lessons to, but if I had been in a creative rut, this book would be very helpful.
I won this for free from a goodreads giveaway and i'm so glad that I did Disclaimer: I received this book free to review and share my thoughts and no, this does not affect my honest opinion about the book.


I loved Unthink by Erik Wahl a lot more than I thought I would and that in itself is a lesson: not judging a book before you read it.
I've read so many business books, new era of business and traditional, as well as a few on creativity and selfdiscovery but there were parts in Wahl's Unthink that I had not thought about in the past.
It was a very interesting synergy I felt with this author where he was taking my halfbaked thoughts and finishing them for me, The combination of the right and left brain, our desire to be both creative as well as logical and rational, the need and fusion of both in business and in life, I loved his approach.
It's a tricky topic but I kept reading and staying engaged, Okay there were a few case studies around football and baseball that I just skimmed at best that does not do it for me but I try to keep an open mind but then there were so many other fantastic stories that the author used to show his point.


My favorite parts of the book are how he invites all of us to be creative and his definition of that creativity and that process of creating your art.
Reading Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way at the same time right now and I can say that I saw some parallels and was very happy to constantly reinforce this single notion that we have a creative genius now let's find a way to tap into it and bring it to the surface.
How do we do that

Unthink will make you, no pun, think think in a new way by first unlearning the old ways of thinking, I loved it. I almost gave it astar because of those boring case studies in the middle but you know what, this book really helped me get a sense of urgency about my creativity and with helping my own clients and students in a more effective way so for that, I think it deserves a fullstars.
Thanks Erik Wahl for writing my story, Helped me realize that I am at my best when unthinking, For such a short book, this one was hard to get through, It falls into the same trap that a lot of selfhelp books do: professing grandiose ideas with few, if any, practical solutions, Perhaps this is because the subject matter is such an ephemeral thing, It also suffers from the same problem as most selfhelp books, in that it repeats the same one or two points over and over and over, and over, . . ad nauseum, as if teh repetition will somehow make them more true or perhaps it's just to beat us over the head with them trying to make them stick,

All in all, there was little of substance to be learned from this book, Glad it was only a couple hours of my life wasted, This is a literally forgettable book, I finished it yesterday, but most of its vague "do what works, unless it doesn't, in which case, do the opposite" empty platitudes are already fading from memory,

These style of business selfhelp books are not for me, and I recognize that, but this book fails even on its own terms, That is, I consciously chose not to catalog all the infuriating to me selfcontradictory advice nuggets, or the many examples where Wahl mistakes an anecdote for compelling evidence, or even the preachy message of "everyone has to find their path, so long as that path is as an artist" because I understand his goal is to instill an emotion in people, and such a goal can be legitimate.
I even resolved to suppress the reflexive certainty that such evoked emotions are transitory and don't yield lasting outcomes, But all that turned out to be unnecessary because Wahl never came close to sparking any excitement in me,

He did a lot of talking about how awesome he is, and he did a lot of inaccurate guessing about how I the reader structure my life, and then he told me to stop doing that and be more like him.


Apropos of nothing above, I found the subsubsection "Live With Some Discomfort" of Chapteran insightful and prescient commentary on how the public interacts with the social media feeds of industry titans.
His specific example was theNFL strike, Side note: looking back at that section, I see that it is a summary of something written by Amy Jo Martin maybe one is better off just reading her book.


my favorite quote: "They were provocative because they lived with conviction that life itself could and should continually advance toward a higher standard and produce a more fulfilling result.
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