This edition has been updated with a three-page list of genius technical, social & political, philosophical, and artistic innovations, most of them thought up by the author. Also included are examples of extemporaneous insights, and a brief guide to compounding ideas. Although the entire book is very brief, this makes it easier to sift through the brilliant suggestive phrases and arrive at your own type of work. The approach used in this guide is a more fluid version of advanced techniques I used to invent the paroxysm or double-paradox, categorical deduction technique, aperrature or mobile building concept, and other similar simple yet brilliant principles...Keep in mind that the way this guide is designed, big ideas can be very small footnotes buried in individual one-line descriptions...This guide is designed for discovering new sources of insight when the proverbial wells run dry. It can be used as a guide for designing elements of fictional stories, business plans, new innovations, and advances in logic. Whether someone needs prophetic advice, a new innovative idea, or some help with brainstorming, this book is not a planner, but rather a do-it-yourself sourcebook. There is genius at work. The twenty categories cover themes which range from existentia, to conditionalities, to definitionalities. The themes are designed to overlap only by creating new categories, thus serving as a kind of 'genius guide to genius.' This updated edition includes a number of new sections designed to expand your idea of creative potential and brainstorming. Also, additional lists of ideas are added periodically, meaning that this book really packs some punch