• Are you “book smart” but you wish you were getting less of “What were you thinking?” in your everyday life?
• Do you keep getting yourself in embarrassing situations that you later think about as something you could have easily avoided?
• Are you tired of making “stupid” mistakes?
• Do you wish to become more prudent in your judgments, more attentive when it comes to simple things and to instinctively know how to react in an unfamiliar situation?

It’s difficult to tell exactly what common sense is, but perhaps Mark Twain’s definition is the simplest and most comprehensive one:

Common sense is the simple knack of seeing something the way it really is and doing something the way it should be done.

Common, because it’s available to us all, but not all of us use it equally. There are too many distractions nowadays so people tend to overlook what’s right in front of them, consumed by other thoughts or over complicating things which are simple in essence.

There’s no way to teach someone common sense, but if you need to improve yours there is something you can do: get in touch with your second-nature instincts and don’t let yourself be sidetracked – unblock your basic, primal problem solving tools and rely on them to provide simple and correct answers.

Easier said than done when you’re not used to using your instincts, but this album can help you to rediscover them and to learn how to use them.