Download or read book Cultivate a Creative Mind written by Simon Silva and published by . This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultivate A Creative Mind offers practical ways to nurture your creativity through the use of insightful explanations and dynamic hands on projects. This book will help you find hidden abilities and talents by guiding you back to creative confidence.
Download or read book Lifelong Kindergarten written by Mitchel Resnick and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How lessons from kindergarten can help everyone develop the creative thinking skills needed to thrive in today's society. In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten is becoming more like the rest of school. In Lifelong Kindergarten, learning expert Mitchel Resnick argues for exactly the opposite: the rest of school (even the rest of life) should be more like kindergarten. To thrive in today's fast-changing world, people of all ages must learn to think and act creatively—and the best way to do that is by focusing more on imagining, creating, playing, sharing, and reflecting, just as children do in traditional kindergartens. Drawing on experiences from more than thirty years at MIT's Media Lab, Resnick discusses new technologies and strategies for engaging young people in creative learning experiences. He tells stories of how children are programming their own games, stories, and inventions (for example, a diary security system, created by a twelve-year-old girl), and collaborating through remixing, crowdsourcing, and large-scale group projects (such as a Halloween-themed game called Night at Dreary Castle, produced by more than twenty kids scattered around the world). By providing young people with opportunities to work on projects, based on their passions, in collaboration with peers, in a playful spirit, we can help them prepare for a world where creative thinking is more important than ever before.
Download or read book Your Creative Mind written by Scott Cochrane and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too many companies limit their strategic thinking by focusing on what they already know how to do. Executives are expected to set concrete objectives and create detailed, step-by-step plans to reach them. This approach may satisfy short-term considerations like quarterly earnings reports, but it produces modest innovation and evolutionary development at best. As a result, the business can find itself in a performance plateau that it cannot seem to break out of.In Your Creative Mind, you will discover an entirely different approach to the creative process. You will learn:How to catapult your company out of a performance plateau and into dynamic growth, expansion, and market leadership.How to move beyond classic groupthink and unleash your true creative power.How to become a trend leader and paradigm shifter by harnessing the secrets of the power of creation.How to innovate your way into the most beneficial business relationships you can imagine.Using the practical techniques and steps described in Your Creative Mind will infuse your company with creative power and drive innovation. Break free of business as usual and create the dynamic growth you deserve!
Download or read book Wired to Create written by Scott Barry Kaufman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity? Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman’s groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire’s popular article in the Huffington Post, Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the “messy minds” of highly creative people. Revealing the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, along with engaging examples of artists and innovators throughout history, the book shines a light on the practices and habits of mind that promote creative thinking. Kaufman and Gregoire untangle a series of paradoxes— like mindfulness and daydreaming, seriousness and play, openness and sensitivity, and solitude and collaboration – to show that it is by embracing our own contradictions that we are able to tap into our deepest creativity. Each chapter explores one of the ten attributes and habits of highly creative people: Imaginative Play * Passion * Daydreaming * Solitude * Intuition * Openness to Experience * Mindfulness * Sensitivity * Turning Adversity into Advantage * Thinking Differently With insights from the work and lives of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Proust, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Edison, Josephine Baker, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, musician Thom Yorke, chess champion Josh Waitzkin, video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and many other creative luminaries, Wired to Create helps us better understand creativity – and shows us how to enrich this essential aspect of our lives.
Download or read book Making Your Creative Mark written by Eric Maisel and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Maisel’s prolific, multifaceted career is a testament to his profound understanding of what it takes to live out one’s creative ambitions. A therapist who is also a bestselling author, coach (and coach trainer), columnist for Professional Artist magazine, and featured blogger for Psychology Today and the Huffington Post, Maisel is an expert on all that blocks the creative. In Making Your Creative Mark, Maisel distills his decades of coaching, teaching, listening, and creating into nine keys, including Passion, Confidence, Empathy, Stress, and Relationship. Each key’s lesson helps creators implement real solutions to their individual challenges. Whether they are writers, painters, actors, composers, or craftspeople, readers will learn to “unlock” what has kept them from beginning, continuing, completing — and succeeding.
Download or read book Cultivating Creativity written by Joe Bailey and published by Joe Bailey. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity is a way of thinking, of looking at things, of experiencing, and operating. Although creativity may seem magical, a rare talent of a select few, creativity is, in fact, available to everyone. In Cultivating Creativity, you will learn how to unlock your creative potential and develop your creative expression. Through developing your creativity, you will become better at generating ideas and finding new perspectives. But, more importantly, with creativity, you will improve your capability to rise to the moment, to make the most of the potentials and demands of the present, and facilitate your ability to lead a full and rich life. In Cultivating Creativity, you will learn many ways to foster your creative process and expression, including: * Have Belief - When you think something is possible, it almost certainly is...especially good ideas. * Research - Explore and lay the groundwork and understanding in subject areas to provide a richer substrate for ideas to grow. * Flow - Let ideas come to you naturally around a specific topic or topics. The more you spark your creativity, the brighter it will burn. * Get out of your way - Learn how to let creativity happen. Be present, mindful, and creative. * Nurture Dreams - Using the right approach, let going to sleep and dreaming lead to a wealth of new ideas. * Be Flexible and Play - Learn to toy with and manipulate ideas and concepts, examining them from different angles and views, critical components of creative insight. * Have Conversations - Indulge in engaged and informed discussion and debate, as powerful sources of new ideas. * Relax - Let the mind generate ideas while you watch and guide the process. Or be mindless and let them come to you. * Change Things Up - If you're stuck in a rut, do something different! Recharge for new ideas. * Be Passionate - Find what most excites and motivates you about a topic or idea and see where this interest leads. * Have Internal Dialogue - If you love exciting, intellectual interplay with friends, family members, and co-workers, why not have one with yourself? * Adjust Your State of Mind - Let new thoughts and ideas emerge naturally by learning to change your consciousness, your perspective, and how you feel. Experience events in new ways. * Instigate Thought Experiments - Consciously explore new ways to look at and think about problems, concepts, and events, leading to new creative insights. * Act Ridiculous - Get out of your comfort zone and put the bounds of normalcy and convention aside to look at things in new ways. * Be Present - Being present helps fully appreciate and engage the moment and open yourself to creative possibility. Taken singly or in combination, switched or applied consistently, these approaches will help foster and develop your creativity, nurturing your ability to react to and generate many possible responses to the moment. And, with greater possibilities in each moment and more positive outcomes, comes the potential for greater rewards and a richer life. Choose creativity and begin creating!
Download or read book Innovation Generation written by Roberta B. Ness and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Innovation Generation presents a fascinating new approach to creative thinking. Using a system of idea-generating methods honed over her illustrious career as a physician, researcher, professor, teacher, and Dean, Roberta Ness provides all the tools needed to learn how to cast aside habitual cognitive maps called frames and draw insights from other fields.
Download or read book Cultivate written by Cageless Birds and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV, Creativity Unlocked, the writings in this volume are meant to challenge your idea of what creativity is and unlock the truth that creativity is a mindset, not a skill set. If every child of God is made in His image, then creativity is not a talent for the select-few, it is a birthright. Our desire is that Cultivate Volume IV would empower you to take risks in expression and discover your creative ability. There are beautiful discoveries to be made when you dare to believe that He desires to speak through your creativity and meet you in the process.In this volume you will find writings and prompts on topics such as creative identity, becoming inspired and stewarding your craft. Our dream is that these pages would inspire you to discover what wholeness looks like in your practical, everyday life.
Download or read book Creative Confidence written by Tom Kelley and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the "creative types." But two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative. In an incredibly entertaining and inspiring narrative that draws on countless stories from their work at IDEO, the Stanford d.school, and with many of the world's top companies, David and Tom Kelley identify the principles and strategies that will allow us to tap into our creative potential in our work lives, and in our personal lives, and allow us to innovate in terms of how we approach and solve problems. It is a book that will help each of us be more productive and successful in our lives and in our careers.
Download or read book The Women s Brain Book written by Dr Sarah McKay and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For women, understanding how the brain works during the key stages of life - in utero, childhood, puberty and adolescence, pregnancy and motherhood, menopause and old age - is essential to their health. Dr Sarah McKay is a neuroscientist who knows everything worth knowing about women's brains, and shares it in this fascinating, essential book. This is not a book about the differences between male and female brains, nor a book using neuroscience to explain gender-specific behaviours, the 'battle of the sexes' or 'Mars-Venus' stereotypes. This is a book about what happens inside the brains and bodies of women as they move through the phases of life, and the unique - and often misunderstood - effects of female biology and hormones. Dr McKay give insights into brain development during infancy, childhood and the teenage years (including the onset of puberty) and also takes a look at mental health as well as the ageing brain. The book weaves together findings from the research lab, case studies and interviews with neuroscientists and other researchers working in the disciplines of neuroendocrinology, brain development, brain health and ageing. This comprehensive guide explores the brain during significant life stages, including: In utero Childhood Puberty The Menstrual Cycle The Teenage Brain Depression and Anxiety Pregnancy and Motherhood Menopause The Ageing Brain
Download or read book Creativity in Research written by Nicola Ulibarri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides concrete guidance, grounded in scientific literature, for researchers to build creative confidence in their work.
Download or read book Cultivating Creativity written by Tina Bruce and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the journey children take in developing their creativity, the author demonstrates the framework that can promote creativity in babies and toddlers, proving the link between theory and practice.
Download or read book Habits of the Creative Mind written by Richard E. Miller and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve your writing by adjusting the way you think and approach assignments in the instantly accessible and flexible Habits of the Creative Mind.
Download or read book Your Creative Brain written by Shelley Carson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research-based techniques that show everyone how to expand creativity and increase productivity Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson?s provocative book, published in partnership with Harvard Health Publications, reveals why creativity isn't something only scientists, investors, artists, writers, and musicians enjoy; in fact, all of us use our creative brains every day at home, work and play. Each of us has the ability to increase our mental functioning and creativity by learning to move flexibly among several brain states. Explains seven brain states or "brainsets" and their functions as related to creativity, productivity, and innovation Provides quizzes, exercises, and self-tests to activate each of these seven brainsets to unlock our maximum creativity Your Creative Brain, called by critics a ?new classic? in the field of creativity, offers inspiring suggestions that can be applied in both one?s personal and professional life.
Download or read book OUT OF OUR MINDS LEARNING TO BE CREATIVE written by Ken Robinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About The Book: Out of Our Minds - There is a paradox here. Throughout the world, companies and organizations are trying to compete in a world of economic and technological change that is moving faster than ever. They urgently need people who are creative, innovative and flexible. Too often they can t find them. Why is this? What s the real problem - and what should be done about it? Out of Our Minds answers these three vital questions for all organizations.
Download or read book Living With A Creative Mind written by Jeffrey Robert Crabtree and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Awakening Minds written by James Downton, Jr. and published by Humanics Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of The Life Gardening Project, Awakening Minds brings the power of creativity to teaching. By working through experiential exercises that expand your awareness, lead to new choices, and cultivate change, you will become a more creative teacher. Learn to think with a more playful mind, so novel ideas for teaching come quickly. Realize your gifts for teaching and how to use them as creativity tools. Motivate your students to learn and participate by creating experiential exercises that awaken and engage their minds. Discover the power of deep listening; and strategic questioning to foster understanding, compassion, and change. Learn the value of being coachable and how to effectively coach your students. Cultivate more balance and wisdom so teaching becomes easier, more compelling, and more satisfying. As your creativity expands, it will affect how you think, teach, and live. Teaching will become more interesting and fun. Your enjoyment and effectiveness as a teacher will grow as you find creative ways to inspire your students to learn. Awakening Minds changed my life. It helped me develop creative approaches to teaching and deeper, more meaningful relationships with my students. Its impact reached beyond the classroom. Rob Truly an insightful and inspiring book. It makes teaching an exciting adventure Debbie Now I know I'm a creative person, teacher, and researcher. This belief has created an amazing change in me. Lori I'm really excited about teaching now! Gabrielle"
