{"id":7200,"date":"2011-12-07T17:08:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T01:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=7200"},"modified":"2011-12-07T17:08:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T01:08:52","slug":"mindfire-big-ideas-for-curious-minds-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2011\/12\/07\/mindfire-big-ideas-for-curious-minds-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds (review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-7200\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mindfire-Big-Ideas-Curious-Minds\/dp\/0983873100%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0983873100\">Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author:<\/strong> <a id=\"contributorNameTriggerB001ILKGVS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scott-Berkun\/e\/B001ILKGVS\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">Scott Berkun<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 196 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Berkun Media (October 26, 2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 0983873100<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0983873105<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read at least one book by Scott Berkun before, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/12\/20\/confessions-of-a-public-speaker\/\">Confessions of a Public Speaker<\/a>, and I liked it so much I decided to spring for his latest.\u00a0 Some other things made me want to read this book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s self-published<\/li>\n<li>Scott is trying to promote the book without publishing house support<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a collection of previously published essays on a variety of topics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And I&#8217;m glad I did! I believe the book is organized to take you from ignition through liftoff for your passions and ideas. I especially liked &#8220;Creative Thinking Hacks&#8221; because I love ideas on sparking creativity. I thought &#8220;Attention and Sex&#8221; was clever (I mean, let&#8217;s face it &#8211; the title is quite clever too).<\/p>\n<p>And I liked the physical layout of the book; I&#8217;m getting older and the font was easy to read, perhaps a little larger and with a little more leading than most books, clearly set to be read, not to push as much material on as few pages as possible.<\/p>\n<p>There are two or three essays I could have lived without, but overall I&#8217;m really glad I read this book and will suggest it to my friends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-7200\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 7200);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-7200\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-7200\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds Author: Scott Berkun Paperback: 196 pages Publisher: Berkun Media (October 26, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0983873100 ISBN-13: 978-0983873105 I&#8217;ve read at least one book by Scott Berkun before, Confessions of a Public Speaker, and I liked it so much I decided to spring for his latest.\u00a0 Some other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[1031],"class_list":["post-7200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-scott-berkun"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-1S8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}