Book review- Visionary Thinking by Ashish Jaiswal

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This latest read “Visionary Thinking” steered me to my childhood imagination. I still remember those afternoon summers of the vacations when most of the neighbourhood took their nap. I, along with my curious mind, spent time roaming around the enclosed compound of my colony, charging my imaginary battalion and battling some foreign war or teaching the fictitious youngsters or building the mythological realm. It is while reading the first chapter that Ashish Jaiswal through his writing requested me to resume dreaming and let my life be governed by them.

The book is a modest attempt to address the deeper human questions concerning happiness, love, pain, freedom, purpose, money, and eventually our final destination, with a higher order of understanding. The book nudges us to hustle as well as thwart the boundaries of the conventional realms of thought. It presents the urgency to commit the unthinkable, imagines the unimaginable and creates and utilizes thoughts to create and improve the most important things in life.

It talks about the magic of growth happening in every moment…only and only if we are conscious about it. The book indicates sketching the life of our dreams and putting the desired colours on the canvas of life. It provokes us to lead our own lives (and along with others) from a future perspective while assembling the ground from past work and continual present efforts. It points toward holding one's ideas and thoughts in their palm with a slightly loose grip so that there is the further capacity for growth.

The book is divided into 5 chapters. My personal favourite is the first one which mainly outlines the sketch and paint theory where Ashish has explained how a person can be in charge of not only dreaming differently but can also put those different thoughts to action by not only just visualizing them but converting them to action. He examines the dilemmas of a visionary while trying to make the correct choices in life. A person can be either a painter or a sketcher, the difference between the two being the former being somewhat enclosed in a sort of shell as far as thinking in an open horizon goes whereas the sketcher is always curious to know what lies beyond the ordinary realms of thoughts.

The book has a simplified framework and is written in a layman's way. It took me very little time to finish this book but I'm still assimilating everything.

"𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒓𝒕h𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒅𝒐𝒎 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆— 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆."


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