If you are hungry, what do you do? Grab a piece of your favorite meal and stay quiet after that? Just like your stomach, even your mind is hungry. But it never lets you know, because you keep it busy thinking about your dream lover, favorite star and many such absurd things. So it silently began to heed to your needs and never let itself grow. When mind looses its freedom to grow, creativity gets a full stop. This might be the reason why we all sometimes think "What happens next?", "Why can't I think?", "Why am I always given the difficult problems?" Well this is the aftermath of our own karma of using our brain for thinking of not-so-worthy things.
Hunger of the mind can be actually satiated through extensive reading. Now why reading and not watching TV? Because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from the childhood. Just like that to develop other aspects of our life, we have to take help of reading. You have innumerable number of books in this world which will answer all your “How to?” questions. Once you read a book, you just don't run your eyes through the lines, but even your mind decodes it and explains it to you. The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed. Now this seed is unknowingly used by you in your future to develop new ideas. The same seed if used many times, can help you link and relate a lot of things, of which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams! This is nothing but creativity. More the number of books you read, your mind will open up like never before.
如果你餓了,你會怎么做?抓起你最喜愛的美食飽餐一頓,然后靜靜地呆在那里?而你的大腦也像你的胃,是會感到饑餓的,但它卻從不讓你知道,因為你讓它一直想著你的夢中情人、你最喜愛的明星和許多諸如此類的荒唐事。因此它只是默默地留意著你的需要卻從不讓自己成長。當(dāng)思維恣意成長時,創(chuàng)造力就嘎然而止。這也許就是為什么我們有時會想“下一步該如何”、“為什么我想不到?”、“為什么我總是碰到難題?”的原因吧。這也是我們的大腦總在考慮那些毫無價值的事情產(chǎn)生的后果。
事實上,思維的饑荒可以通過廣泛的閱讀來滿足。為什么是閱讀而不是選擇看電視呢?因為自孩提時代起,讀書就已經(jīng)是最具教育性的工具了。正如人生發(fā)展的其他方面一樣,我們不得不求助于閱讀。世界上有無數(shù)書籍可以回答你“如何做”的問題。讀書時不僅要用眼睛瀏覽文字,還要用腦去解讀、詮釋。書中有趣的部分就會像種子一樣貯存在你的腦海里。將來你會不自覺地運用這粒種子引發(fā)新的想法。多次運用這粒種子將有助于你把許多事情聯(lián)系起來,即使你做夢都想不到這些!這不是別的,就是創(chuàng)造力!你讀的書越多,你的心智就會前所未有地開闊。