Owning and running a business is tough. To get through the day, we compartmentalize: home stuff, relationship stuff, management stuff, sales stuff, marketing stuff, management stuff, sales stuff, marketing stuff, friend stuff, dun stuff, other stuff. With all the effort we put into segmenting out lives into near little boxes, we lose some important nuggets of wisdom in the process.

In his book “Unthink: Rediscover your creative genius,” artist and corporate speaker Erik Wahl reminds us of what’s outside our boxes and why it’s so valuable to our careers — and to our lives in general.

Wahl dwells on the artist within all of us. No, he doesn’t teach you how to paint or mold clay. Instead, he takes business-minded, results-oriented readers on a guided tour through a long history of entrepreneurs who used creativity and a strong sense of self to reach breakthroughs in their chosen fields. If you’ve ever wished for the savvy of Steve Jobs, Walt Disney or Einstein, a peek at genius is only a few pages away.

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