Neha's Notebook

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield Everyone is an artist. Everyone has some or the other form of art to create, craft and contribute to the burgeoning functioning of the universe. But most of us are artists in disguise waiting for the glasshouses of our minds to crack open so that we can perceive fresh possibilities out of the things we sense and interpret. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield is a book on creativity, on writing, on what prevents and blocks us to express our true self, and how to take a leap by understanding what blocks us. Different people call this block by different names. In this book, the author calls this blocking element by the name of ‘Resistance’. The book is divided into three main parts. Part one deals with knowing the characteristics and tendencies of resistance. Part two deals with ways of combating resistance and part three deals with what lies beyond resistance. In this review, I share useful and functionl pointers from the book. So

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown For once, picture a religious cult in your imagination. A cult that follows secret rites and rituals. Then picture a man joining the cult and masquerading as the member of the cult but only to infiltrate it and dig out its mystical secrets to become powerful. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown is a fiction novel depicting the story of a cult named as the Masons cult. Robert Langdon, a professor of symbology and Dan Brown’s signature protagonist character stumbles upon this cult quite all of a sudden. Robert’s friend, Peter Soloman, is the head of the Masonic cult. One day Robert received a call from Peter’s assistant inviting him to give a lecture in an event going to be held in the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. He also requested Robert to bring a package with him, a package which he entrusted to him many years earlier. But as soon as Robert reached the venue, he came to know that the call was a hoax and the man posing as Peter’s assis

Lateral Thinking by Bono Edward De Can two plus two equal five? Can water run uphill instead of downhill? Is it possible to attach magnets to apples and then create a machine that can pluck the apples from the apple tree by attracting magnets? In ordinary logic, things like these may appear weird or absurd. This typical way of thinking is called as the vertical thinking. But there is another way to think, an out-of-the-box way. It is termed as lateral thinking. Lateral thinking liberates an immense ocean of ideas and possibilities with regard to problem solving, developing new ideas and even day-to-day life. Lateral thinking by Edward de Bono unfolds the way of lateral thinking in deep detail. The book elaborates on the ideas as in what is lateral thinking, what it does and how it is practiced? The book delves deep into the concept of lateral thinking while elaborating its obvious relatedness to the functioning of the human mind. Every chapter is divided into defi