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Book review of A.L.I.E.N. Thinking: The Unconventional Path to Breakthrough Ideas

The only true voyage of discovery would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is

—Marcel Proust 

This is an insightful to-do book of Marcel Proust’s prophetic words. It combines brilliantly told case studies within a new framework which is called “Alien Thinking”. ALIEN stands for Attention, Levitation, Imagination, Experimentation, and Navigation. Using these case studies, the book shows how unconventional thinkers focus their attention closely and with fresh eyes.