Zap: The Power of Dimensional Thinking

By Awori Achoka

To "zap" is the ability to sift through the detail and go straight to the point. The power of the mind to visualize new ideas and scenarios is infinite. However, the rigid conditioning we undergo to meet society's rigid demands enables us to use to use only a fraction of its immense power. ZAP is about unlocking this unlimited multidimensional power of the mind and employing it for innovation and problem solution. Drawing examples from leading thinkers and innovators, the author shows that the mind can solve any problem when it is systematically focused on it over time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 18, 2015
• ISBN: 9781496974914

Awori Achoka

Awori Achoka is a Kenyan, born on July 22, 1956. He is a strategic thinker and innovator on livelihood issues. He is the coauthor of Uhai: A Model for Sustainable Livelihoods in Africa (1996). He has championed numerous innovative projects in the area of sustainable livelihoods in Africa. In 1990, jointly with two others, he won an international award for innovation in renewable energy, from Stockholm Innovations for Development Association (IDEA).

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Published by AuthorHouse 05/14/2015

ISBN: 978-1-4969-7489-1 (sc)

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Contents

Acknowledgement

Preface

1 Dimensional Thinking

2 The mind ZAPS from the environment

3 Intelligence

4 The power of dimensional thinking

5 Employing the power of dimensional thinking

6 Long Range Scanning and visioning

7 Employing Long range visioning

8 Deep-Scan visualizing

9 Deep scan visioning and innovation

10 Essential ingredients for long range and deep scan visioning

11 Why are most visionary thinkers and innovators so stubborn?

Bibliography

Unlock the mind, think in dimensions

Dedication

This publication is dedicated to thinkers and all those who tinker with ideas however difficult they may appear.

Acknowledgement

I would like to acknowledge those before me, who harnessed the power of the mind, to produce discoveries that changed the course of world history.

My thanks go to the respected science historian Prof. Arthur I. Miller, whose illuminating highlight of the minds of great thinkers as captured in his seminal publication Insights of Genius, gave me the courage to publish my own thoughts. The special editions of the Scientific American Journal, released to commemorate the new millennium were a great source of wisdom and inspiration.

I am greatly indebted to Martin Kalula of Wanga Graphics, who captured the spirit of this publication through the vivid front cover graphic and artistic layout.

Preface

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