Book-Marketing Tip of the Day – September 4, 2016

According to Abraham Flexner, "the really great discoveries have been made by men and women who were driven not by the desire to be useful, but to satisfy their curiosity." To cultivate such curiosity, you should think of yourself as apprenticing to the craft of thought. As the intellectual historian Mary Carruthers puts it: "People do not 'have' ideas, they 'make' them." (Scott Newstock, Wall Street Journal, Sep 1, p A9)