by projecting forward five years and imagining that all of your dreams have come true. What would your life look like if it were ideal in every way? Where would you be? Who would be there with you? What would you be doing? How much would you be earning? And so on. You then return to the present day and your current situation. You think of specific steps you could take to capitalize on your op- portunities and to overcome your limitations and obstacles. This is the primary use of creative thinking. It is to solve your problems and trigger mental breakthroughs that you can use to move faster toward achieving the goals that are most important to you. ■ THREE MINDS IN ONE You think and operate your life with three different minds. The first is your conscious mind. You use your conscious mind to take in new
be fired from his post on the college health service staff; one especially persistent newsman had to be threatened with a lawsuit. A similar siege was repelled on the eve of the flood when a swarm of reporters pushed and pestered the believers for information. Afterward, the researchers summarized the group's preflood stance on public exposure and recruitment in respectful tones: "Exposed to a tremendous burst of publicity, they had made every attempt to dodge fame; given dozens of op- portunities to proselyte, they had remained evasive and secretive and behaved with an almost superior indifference" (Festinger et al., 1964). Eventually, when all the reporters and would-be converts had been cleared from the house, the believers began making their final preparations for the arrival of the spaceship scheduled for midnight that night. The scene as viewed by Fes- tinger, Riecken, and Schachter must have seemed like absurdist theater. Otherwise
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