The Skinny on Creativity - now with animation! No matter what you do, or where you are in life, the ability to think creatively is crucial for your survival and your success. The more you develop your skills at creative thinking, the more likely you will be able to master your environment. Creative thinkers are all around you. People who are juggling responsibilities and obligations, who are finding ways to get a lot done with minimal help, who are using their talents to maximum effect. Creative thinking is the skill you need to overcome whatever stands between you and what you want to accomplish. Creative thinkers will have an edge in the years ahead. Machines can perform analysis better than most humans. But machines can't imagine; machines can’t think creatively. To compete and prosper you need to enhance your abilities at creative thinking. So give us an hour of your time, and we will give you a better understanding creativity and an enhanced ability to think outside of the box.
Whatever you do, says Dr. Eric Maisel, creativity helps you do it better. Creativity encourages the artist to paint more frequently and authentically. It allows a busy executive to see her options more quickly, make changes more fluidly, and become more self-directing and confident. In this book, America's foremost expert on the psychological side of the creative process presents a complete one-year plan for increasing and unleashing your creativity. It includes two disucssions/exercises per week, and culminates in a guided project of your choice—from working on a current novel or symphony to planning a new home business or becoming a more effective supervisor.
Creativity is critical. Out of Our Minds explores creativity: its value in business, its ubiquity in children, its perceived absence in many adults and the phenomenon through which it disappears — and offers a groundbreaking approach for getting it back. Author Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognised authority on creativity, and his TED talk on the subject is the most watched video in TED’s history. In this book, Sir Ken argues that organisations everywhere are struggling to fix a problem that originates in schools and universities. Organisations everywhere are competing in a world that changes in the blink of an eye – they need people who are flexible enough to adapt, and creative enough to find novel solutions to problems old and new. Out of Our Minds describes how schools, businesses and communities can work together to bring creativity out of the closet and realise its inherent value at every stage of life. This new third edition has been updated to reflect changing technologies and demographics, with updated case studies and coverage of recent changes to education. While education and training are the keys to the future, the key can also be turned the other way; locking people away from their own creativity. Only by actively fostering creativity can businesses unlock those doors and achieve their true potential. This book will help you to: Understand the importance of actively promoting creativity and innovation. Discover why creativity stagnates somewhere between childhood and adulthood. Learn how to re-awaken dormant creativity to help your business achieve more. Explore ways in which we can work together to keep creativity alive for everyone. Modern business absolutely demands creativity of thought and action. We're all creative as children — so where does it go? When do we lose it? Out of Our Minds has the answers, and clear solutions for getting it back.
How to Be More Creative is a groundbreaking work on the power of creativity that has the power to enrich every aspect of your life. Learn key ideas for enhancing and solidifying your own creative potential. Drastically improve your problem-solving abilities with a few simple strategies. Increase your ability to succeed in every imaginable situation that presents itself. Develop your creative thinking abilities to see things from many different angles. Experience the limitless possibilities of an applied imagination. Learn how simple ideas create desirable outcomes. Use creativity in work, life, and relationships to provide solid, practical solutions to everyday issues. Learn to think outside of the box, and approach old problems in new ways. Continue to grow in success and fulfillment by developing your built-in creative abilities. Your unique, untapped creative potential is all right there waiting to be discovered. Perhaps it just needs some encouragement. Being more creative is about finding time to practice, develop, and apply these new skills, too. With a little effort, you can improve the decision making processes involved with some of the little things in your life, which will thereby impact the success of your larger concerns. A bunch of good little changes add up to one giant tectonic shift in the right direction. Learning to think creatively truly can and will take you absolutely just so far in life and work. You can accomplish more things within smaller windows of time with a creative approach. How to Be More Creative is drawn from a lifetime of developing creativity. This author understands that within each person there is a nearly infinite untapped potential. Once it has been developed and nurtured, that amazing, beautiful, and sometimes elusive creative side of your personality will re-define your ability to discover new pathways to success in every part of your life. Get ready to discover a world of opportunity and imagination that has always been there in the background just waiting to help. Begin today's adventure with an entirely new outlook on life! Be more creative in everything that you do! Try this helpful and insightful book! Get your copy today! Get creative, everyone! Thank you!
A groundbreaking new investigation into the mysteries of creativity and how to maximize your creative potential, from Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter and bestselling author of An Elegant Defense Matt Richtel. In his viral New York Times piece "How to Be Creative," journalist and bestselling author Matt Richtel presented readers with a list of prescriptive advice on how to unleash your inner creativity through steps like paying attention to your imagination, embracing imperfection, and giving your brain some much-needed rest. Now he expands these concepts into a full-length book aiming to uncover the secrets of being more creative, and arguing for the power of creativity in all walks of life. In Inspired, Richtel investigates the nature of creativity through interviews with prominent creatives on their craft, as well as scientists who have been working to unlock the secrets of the creative brain. Blending science and personal development, Richtel not only walks readers through how to maximize their creative potential, but also provides scientific and anecdotal evidence on how accessing creativity serves as a key to success in any field and a source of deep personal fulfillment and meaning.
The Power of Creativity (A Three Part Box set) Learning How to Build Lasting Habits, Face Your Fears and Change Your Life | An Uncommon Guide to Mastering Your Inner Genius and Finding New Ideas That Matter | How to Conquer Procrastination, Finish Your Work and Find Success Reviews for the books in this boxset: "This carefully written book provided me insights, encouragement and clever practical steps to be taken to explore old dreams, old ambitions. It helps one generate youthful enthusiasm, consider new fields, and reconstruct age-worn habits to take on all the tomorrows that lie ahead with renewed confidence and vigor." Gustavo A. Mellander, Ph.D., D.H.L. "I loved this book. It’s full to the brim of great metaphors, learnings, ideas, examples, exercises and possible shifts in perception. The author made me feel that he was in the room with me, talking me through all the possibilities to have me live my dream." ”" James Minter "If you have ever thought about undertaking a creative project, but haven't begun, this little gem is the book for you. It is chock full of practical tips to help you identify what is holding you back from pursuing your creative dream and how to change that." Claire Luana "Bryan skillfully weaves effective storytelling with frank and practical advice to provide a compelling case for the creative life. I was most impressed with his own personal stories and how he handled serious personal and professional setbacks with resolve and grace. Very encouraging and inspiring." C. George "I completely underestimated how useful this book would be This book is not about finding lots of new ideas, but changing your perspective, psychology and understanding of yourself and creativity to make you much more receptive to new ideas. Thus, as a result, you find inspiration from a far wider range of sources." MC ˃˃˃ Learning How to Build Lasting Habits, Face Your Fears and Change Your Life (Book 1) Are you ready to build habits, face your fears and change your life? Because that’s the Power of Creativity. This first book is for new writers, musicians, filmmakers, artists and anyone who has ever asked questions like “How can I become more creative?” or, “How can I get more ideas?” or “How can I focus on my thoughts and just let them flow?” If you’ve ever struggled with a problem or challenge in your personal or professional life and thought, “I can’t do this, I’m not creative enough”, this book will help you ˃˃˃ An Uncommon Guide to Mastering Your Inner Genius and Finding New Ideas That Matter (Book 2) Do you need to be a genius or possess mystical talents to master yourself and become more creative? Well, no. Instead, you just need to know where to look for ideas and if you’re a writer, musician or artist wondering where to look, this book will help you. This book is the second in a three-part series about the Power of Creativity for new writers, musicians, filmmakers, artists. Over the proceeding chapters, you’ll gain chosen techniques for generating ideas. You’ll also discover how to adopt the mindset of creative masters like Albert Einstein, Henri Matisse and Steve Jobs to get better at your craft and to unlock fresh thinking. ˃˃˃ How to Conquer Procrastination, Finish Your Work and Find Success (Book 3) Is there a hidden, powerful secret to becoming more creative and finding success with your work? Did creative masters like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Henri Matisse possess an abundance of talent the rest of us can only dream of? This book is the third in a three-part series about the Power of Creativity for new writers, musicians, filmmakers, artists. It’s for anyone who has a great idea (or even just a little one) but they’re finding it difficult to act
The stages of the creative process—from “unlearning” to beginning again—seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, and others. Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. All of us must work our way through the empty page, the blank screen, writer's block, confusion, chaos, and doubt. In this book, Leski draws from her observations and experiences as a teacher, student, maker, writer, and architect to describe the workings of the creative process. Leski sees the creative process as being like a storm; it slowly begins to gather and take form until it overtakes us—if we are willing to let it. It is dynamic, continually in motion; it starts, stops, rages and abates, ebbs and flows. In illustrations that accompany each chapter, she maps the arc of the creative process by tracing the path of water droplets traveling the stages of a storm. Leski describes unlearning, ridding ourselves of preconceptions; only when we realize what we don't know can we pose the problem that we need to solve. We gather evidence—with notebook jottings, research, the collection of objects—propelling the process. We perceive and conceive; we look ahead without knowing where we are going; we make connections. We pause, retreat, and stop, only to start again. To illustrate these stages of the process, Leski draws on examples of creative practice that range from Paul Klee to Steve Jobs, from the discovery of continental drift to the design of Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Familia. Creativity, Leski tells us, is a path with no beginning or end; it is ongoing. This revelatory view of the creative process will be an essential guide for anyone engaged in creative discovery. The Creative Process Unlearning Problem Making Gathering and Tracking Propelling Perceiving and Conceiving Seeing Ahead Connecting Pausing Continuing
One of the world’s leading creative artists, choreographers, and creator of the smash-hit Broadway show, Movin’ Out, shares her secrets for developing and honing your creative talents—at once prescriptive and inspirational, a book to stand alongside The Artist’s Way and Bird by Bird. All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, The Creative Habit provides you with thirty-two practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career. In "Where's Your Pencil?" Tharp reminds you to observe the world -- and get it down on paper. In "Coins and Chaos," she gives you an easy way to restore order and peace. In "Do a Verb," she turns your mind and body into coworkers. In "Build a Bridge to the Next Day," she shows you how to clean the clutter from your mind overnight. Tharp leads you through the painful first steps of scratching for ideas, finding the spine of your work, and getting out of ruts and into productive grooves. The wide-open realm of possibilities can be energizing, and Twyla Tharp explains how to take a deep breath and begin...
Big data entrepreneur Allen Gannett overturns the mythology around creative genius, and reveals the science and secrets behind achieving breakout commercial success in any field. We have been spoon-fed the notion that creativity is the province of genius -- of those favored, brilliant few whose moments of insight arrive in unpredictable flashes of divine inspiration. And if we are not a genius, we might as well pack it in and give up. Either we have that gift, or we don’t. But Allen shows that simply isn’t true. Recent research has shown that there is a predictable science behind achieving commercial success in any creative endeavor, from writing a popular novel to starting up a successful company to creating an effective marketing campaign. As the world’s most creative people have discovered, we are enticed by the novel and the familiar. By understanding the mechanics of what Gannett calls “the creative curve” – the point of optimal tension between the novel and the familiar – everyone can better engineer mainstream success. In a thoroughly entertaining book that describes the stories and insights of everyone from the Broadway team behind Dear Evan Hansen, to the founder of Reddit, from the Chief Content Officer of Netflix to Michelin star chefs, Gannett reveals the four laws of creative success and identifies the common patterns behind their achievement.
