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Creativity is a strange thing that few people manage to understand, even people who are called creative "Spark: Raise Your Mind to the Power of Infinity and Create Anything" is a guide to sparking that creativity and getting it going. Vision is having an idea, but "Spark" seeks to help readers turn that vision into a vague concept in reality. Applicable to business, writing, artistry, or other avenues, "Spark" is a handbook that would prove good reading to anyone whose meal ticket depends on their creativity.
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Success only takes a spark. It only takes one possibility- that and the willingness to allow it to grow and develop into something amazing.
Spark is essentially a little guide about manifesting for business purposes. Just as finding the key to happiness in regular life is opening up to the possibilities, putting effort forward to create your vision, and being willing to accept the most that life has to offer, the same goes for business. Inspired business concepts are birthed from imaginative ideas.
Spark looks at how to take a spark, a possibility, or an idea and nurture it. Many of the exercises will just as useful in building a happy personal life as they will be for developing successful business ventures.
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After reading the first few pages, I determined, "Looks like another book of existential Eastern philosophy." I was right. If that's what you're into, you might like SPARK: RAISE YOUR MIND TO THE POWER OF INFINITY AND CREATE ANYTHING by Arupa Tesolin. I came away a little disappointed. I always value a book by what I was able to learn from it, and I didn't glean much here.
Ever since "The Secret" went through it's Oprahfication and became famous, there have been a plethora of books extolling the virtues of thought. We are what we think. Our thoughts attract. Our destiny is controlled by our mind. That sort of thing. That's all well and good and I have no problem with any of it, in and of itself. The problem I DO have is that this sort of thing has been around for centuries now and is no secret at all. It's called p-r-a-y-e-r.
This sort of teaching simply takes the focus off of God and onto self. I fear this is misleading untold masses and directing them away from personal salvation and the glorification of Christ.
On the other hand, the book is very easy read. At just over 100 pages, it would make a nice Saturday afternoon read for anyone into that sort of thing.
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"Spark - Raise Your Mind to the Power of Infinity and Create Anything" was written to teach you to how to become a conscious creator. Becoming a conscious creator teaches you to use the visioning process so that you can create something from nothing. Ms. Tesolin wrote "Spark" while she was seeking to find a fuller explanation to the creative process.
To create we need to both have a vision and to use our imagination. "Spark" teaches us how to use our mind to create anything that we can possibly dream up. As we go through this process, we will begin to attract what we want into our life. This in turn, will make our lives more meaningful. Our spirit is what does the creating. It is the creative spark of our spirit that gets things going.
I found "Spark" to be highly motivating and empowering. There is so much good information in there, that I don't even think that one word was wasted. I look forward to going back through the book slowly and applying the principles. If you are afraid that it won't work for you read Chapter 7, it discusses fear and doubts. Enjoy!
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Spark is all about sensing a vision and placing the idea into action. Creativity is an important component of this process and Spark emphasizes the utilization of creativity; pointing out different ways to improve the role of creative thinking and make it more effective. Not only is it important to improve creative thinking, it also important to block the obstacles to creativity, in order to enhance the vision and creative process.
This book talks about a subject that is nothing new and, in many ways, its content reminds me of some of the business training sessions I have attended in the past. These ideas about vision, creativity, etc., have been stated thousands of times before. Thus, Spark is not the most original book. It continues the themes of thinking positive, avoiding doubt, and following through on a visionary plan in much the same manner as any other book on the topic.
Spark recommends specific, repetitive verbal exercises to make the individual more receptive to creative energy. Phrases like: I am That, and My Mind is the Infinite One are required to be repeated over and over again, about one hundred times each day. Exactly how this is supposed to be beneficial, I have no idea. For myself, not only do I gain nothing from partaking in such an exercise, I also find that saying the same thing over and over again results in the statement losing its intended meaning.
Spark is an optimistic book, and there is nothing wrong with optimism. But its promises go too far to take them seriously and the book often gets lost in its own repetitive nature. Books that promise great things by simply changing one's mindset should always be greeted with skepticism. Thinking positively is certainly a good idea and positive thoughts are certainly better than negative thoughts. But just because a person thinks positively and flexes his/her creative muscles does not guarantee success. I can think of many people who are very positive and creative and yet have accomplished very little. On the other side, I can think of several skeptics who achieved even more than they thought they would in spite of their somewhat negative attitude.
Repetition is another problem I have with Spark. Words like Infinite, Creative, and Vision are overused in this book. In addition to that, I don't like the attempt to write over- intelligently. I often had to stop and re- read a paragraph or two to make sure I understood what the author was trying to say. This isn't because the book is complex or anything like that. No, the reason I had to read some parts over again is because the choice of words often made a simple statement sound more complicated than it actually was. Another read confirmed that the statement was really pretty simple.
Spark does offer a few useful pieces of advice, like its emphasis on the understanding of the power to create as opposed to relying strictly on intellectual prowess. The book is also correct when it talks about the barriers to creativity and success and what can be done to prevent them or overcome them if they are already in place. But taken as a whole, I find very little practical advice in the page of Spark. It's an enthusiastic book, but it does quite cut it for me. The repetitious exercises and the general advice about using creative thinking and opening the mind to new ideas has been stated a thousand times before- and more effectively- by other authors.
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