Continuing on recent theme about how Silvertongue Software is using games to help provide business education, I was startled to see that Techcrunch had a post today advising about how entrepreneurs should read science fiction to help develop imagination – “Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination”.
Michael Arrington slates most business books targeted at entrepreneurs for containing a small amount of good advice surrounded by a huge amount of fluff to make up the page numbers. I consider that the same is true of many investing books. They consist of rehash of a number of well known investing rules (often lifted from one of the great investing books) puffed up with lots of meaningless information and often crazy claims of success.
The Techcrunch article proposes that reading science fiction will goad your imagination and so hopefully help the neurons connect in a way that will improve the impulses to innovate in your brain. One way I would think of this process is that reading wild fantasy triggers the imagination and innovation part of your brain. In contrast reading about how to be innovative in a business book doesn’t actually help you alter the way your brain works – it just informs you about how it should work.
In a similar way, the Texas Holdem Investing program can help to hardwire good investing discipline, risk management, and probability concepts into your brain. And the effectiveness of Texas Holdem Investing is increased because by implementing the program. By playing Texas Holdem Poker you train your brain to work and think in a way that improves investing abilities.
I find it interesting myself that although Techcrunch is a technology blog, that it has provided material for some of my blog posts in the investing sphere. Perhaps Texas Holdem Investing can be viewed as a “technology” that helps to improve investment skills. Now I need to start working on figuring out how to implement the technology…
Finally, since I am leveraging off Michael Arrington’s work, I thought I’d provide a link that I found some time back giving a good science fiction novel list entitled “The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life”. I’ll post this link onto Techcrunch for the benefit of his readers.
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