1. The document discusses creative thinking and how to increase your income. It suggests sowing more to reap more, doing more than you are paid to do, following the golden rule of treating others as you wish to be treated, and increasing the quality of your work everyday.
2. The brain is like a gold mine that can generate new ideas by challenging the status quo and thinking of ways to improve things. Asking questions is a way to exercise the brain and come up with new ideas.