creativity involves generating new ideas, imagining different possibilities, considering alternative options by judging which work best or feel right (72)

1. What makes the difference is out attitude toward what happens, not what happens (159)

2. One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations (eg. lucky and unlucky man who find 5 USD) (162)

3. Another good luck attidute is the ability to reframe., to look at a situation that fails to go according to plan and turn it into something beneficial (162)

4. Jonas Salk: “if all insects were to disapear from the earth, within fifty years all other forms of life would end but if all human beings were to disappear from the earth, within fifty years all other forms of life would flourish” (259)