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Hey everyone.
I will be holding a creativity workshop Sunday, April 18th, from 1-4pm at the Unity Spiritual Center of San Francisco. The workshop is $25 per attendee. Space is limited. If you’re interested in reserving a seat, contact me here or call the center at (415) 566-4122.

Also, I will be the guest speaker during the center’s Sunday Service starting at 10:30am. Come on by and check it out if you’re interested. The service is free and open to the public.

In case you haven’t seen it yet, I’ve been featured in the Asian Journal. Specifically, a great article was put together for the newspaper’s “Something Filipino” section. The paper gave the book and I great coverage.

Grab a copy of the paper if you have access to it (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York). Or you can checkout the article online.

-Javy

Just wanted to thank everyone again who has supported The Power of Thinking Differently. We’ve once again broken into Amazon’s top #100 books on creativity.

Anytime I have the opportunity to show gratitude to everyone who has been a supporter of this material, I’ll do it. Also, with so many books written on the subject, being in the top 100 is a landmark worth recognizing.

Also, if you haven’t seen it yet, I’ve started posting free articles and podcasts online at PicklesAndDoughnuts.com. I’ll have some great interviews with people who have taken creative approaches in life. I think it’s a great way to honor the unconventional, creative paths others have taken. Plus, I love learning more about creativity through the experience of others. I hope you enjoy it as well.

thanks,

Javy

Here’s the link to my guest page on their show.

You can listen or download my Conscious Talk Radio Appearance

Released: Sep 25, 2009

Cultural conflict is on the rise. Lives are changing in a flash as a result of job layoffs. Ingrained behaviors have stretched our natural resources to the limits. The Clinton Global Initiative is currently in session to find innovative approaches to global dilemmas, but how does innovation work? How can we find creative solutions for our common, everyday problems?

“Creativity isn’t reserved for the elite, the painter, inventor, or entrepreneur. It is a skill that we are all born with and can harness to enhance all aspects of our lives,” says creativity expert Javy W. Galindo, author of The Power of Thinking Differently: an imaginative guide to creativity, change, and the discovery of new ideas. “Regrettably, far too many of us react to our circumstances with habitual responses that leave us feeling stuck, frustrated, and desperate for deeper meaning.”

Galindo claims that the key to creativity is overcoming our neurologically wired thinking habits in order to explore creative possibilities. In his book, he takes a unique approach to understanding the innovative mind by exploring the latest research in cognitive science and psychology while also reflecting on the creativity of famous artists, scientists, and business people.

Galindo lightheartedly guides the reader through the universal stages of the creative process and describes the nature of creative insight, ways to transcend creative blocks, the keys to cultivating creativity in groups, and how to break free of groupthink by using both sides of the brain. As a result, readers discover how important relaxation, collaboration, diversity, a sense of humor, and a sense of play are to finding new ideas.

“Some of the character traits needed to be creative go against our cultural norms. It’s not easy to relax, laugh, and play in our serious, goal oriented society. However, if we want to be innovative these things need to be bigger parts of our lives.”

According to Galindo, everyone has the capacity for attaining innovative, creative insights.

“Science shows that not only are all our brains built for thinking creatively, but that creativity is the brain’s most recent evolutionary development. So, why not take advantage of it to find new perspectives, alternative paths, and more creative choices?”

About the Author – Javy W. Galindo
Javy Wong Galindo, M. Eng., is a self-proclaimed creative dimwit who is working real hard to become better. In addition to spending several years researching the creative process at the graduate level, this former electrical engineer and performing arts instructor has over 13 years of experience providing creative consultation. He has successfully helped others exercise their creativity through workshops, seminars, and personal coaching. Javy is currently available as a lecturer, consultant, and for interviews. More information can be found at his website: www.Thinking-Differently.com

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I’d also like to thank everyone who has been helping pass the word about “The Power of Thinking Differently,” especially my marketing adviser (I should ask if she wants to be known) who has been running some google ads for us. The book again has broken into the top #100K in overall sales on Amazon, currently around #40,000 as I’m writing this, and is back into the top #100 in Creativity! So, thanks again for supporting the cause.

-Javy

I’ve recently been featured in an article in the Central Valley Business Times. There’s both a written article and an audio interview posted. Here’s a link to the original article.

I’ve gone ahead and copied it below:

Out of Work? Get out of The Box
Audio Interview Here

Lost your job? It may turn out to be a good thing, if you’re willing to think outside the box, says Javy Galindo, whose Silicon Valley engineering career has taken a new turn.

Laid off once too many times in the cyclical downturns in high tech, Mr. Galindo has shifted careers, but only after losing his job.

“When we’re stressed, there’s a tendency to limit ourselves, limit our perceptions, limit our view of what we think is possible,” he says, describing the typical reaction to suddenly being without a paycheck. This leads to almost blindly following old habits in seeking new opportunities, he says.

Mr. Galindo says others who find themselves unemployed in the Great Recession might want to follow his example, if not his exact path.

“You can approach your layoff differently, with a different strategy,” he says. “In my case, I was subjected to three different layoffs in my career. The first two layoffs I went through I didn’t think of anything other than let’s find a job immediately, let’s find the same type of job. I didn’t allow myself to think about other alternatives.”

As it turned out, the third layoff was a career changer, something he talks about in today’s audio interview.

(Javy Galindo talks about how your creativity could be your greatest asset in coping with job loss in today’s CVBT Audio Interview via Skype. Please left-click on the link above to listen now or right-click to download the MP3 audio file for later listening.)

Mr. Galindo has put his ideas into a new book, “The Power of Thinking Differently,” now available through Amazon.com.

“Sometimes it feels like people are frustrated and stuck because they’re approaching it the same way. I’m hoping they can use the book, use my material, to approach it differently,” he says.

He says he managed to engineer a new career through his writing and speaking engagements at workshops and seminars.

“Though we can be fearful of change, and fearful of trying something new, you’ll never know it it’s worth it until you try it,” he says.

9/11 A Reminder for a Different Approach to Cross-Cultural Relationships

Author provides three key points for taking a creative approach to cultural conflict, cultural diversity, and for building cross-cultural bridges.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 11, 2009 – This September 11th, in remembrance of the attack on the World Trade Center, one author is urging people to be aware of how they think about cultural diversity in the present.

“In order to fight the war on terror and ease cultural tensions, we must learn how to think differently and be willing to take a creative approach to understanding cross-cultural relationships,” said Javy W. Galindo, author of The Power of Thinking Differently: an imaginative approach to creativity, change, and the discovery of new ideas. (http://www.thinking-differently.com)

According to Galindo, this can be accomplished if we keep the following three points in mind.

1. The first is that all cultures have their own unique framework for understanding the world. When we neglect this fact we can become angered or threatened because we interpret the behavior and words of others within the wrong cultural context.

2. Human beings have a biological tendency to feel uneasy when interacting with unfamiliar stimuli — such as unfamiliar people with unfamiliar customs. Galindo asserts that this was an evolutionary trait that kept our primitive ancestors alive in the wild, but is now the cause of much unnecessary strife in the modern world.

3. Lastly, when we are under stress we can get stuck to our initial perceptions and wind up relying on our primitive survival mechanisms. The result is that we over generalize and can become enslaved by our emotions.  

“Fortunately we have the brain capacity to take a step back, relax, and realize what is going on when we feel these tensions,” says Galindo. “We don’t have to rely on habitual reactions.”

He also believes it would help to appreciate cultural diversity as a key component to creativity, innovation, and progress. “What I have found in my research of the creative process and creative thinking is that creative ideas most easily arise at the intersection of diverse ideas. The simplist way of finding this intersection is by collaborating with people having differing perspectives.”

Links:
Author’s website: http://www.thinking-differently.com
To purchase the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Power-Thinking-Differently-imagina …

Media Contact:
Javy W. Galindo
jwgthink @ aol.com
(206) 426-1075