Download or read book Creative You written by David B. Goldstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps each reader unleash his or her innate creative skills based on a unique personality type and succeed in every endeavor. Original. 20,000 first printing.
Download or read book How Creative are You written by Eugene Raudsepp and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 1981 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Have Great Ideas written by John Ingledew and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Have Great Ideas is the essential guide for students and young professionals looking to embrace creative thinking in design, advertising and communications. It provides 53 practical strategies for unlocking innovative ideas. Strategies include improvisation techniques, changing the scenery, finding hidden links, looking to nature for inspiration, combining unusual systems, challenging set boundaries and many more. Each strategy is packed with great examples of successful contemporary and historical designs – from a designer dress made out of an old typewriter to ticket machines powered by recycled bottles in China, via the reimagining of famous brand logos and mis-use of photocopiers. Packed with practical projects to kick-start inventive thought in idea-blocked moments, this book explores creative thinking across all visual arts disciplines.
Download or read book What s Your Creative Type written by Meta Wagner and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest creators in human history -- from Mozart to Meryl Streep, Jackson Pollock to Jay-Z -- don't just have talent -- they also understand their motivations for pursuing art. What's Your Creative Type? helps artists do the same in a fun and witty way. Stepping away from the hyper-focus on how people create, What's Your Creative Type? instead explores why. By identifying your creative motivation type, you'll be able to find renewed energy, overcome creative blocks, and release the artist within. Drawing from creativity theory and personality typology, each chapter of the book is devoted to a creative type, from the A-Lister seeking recognition to the Activist who wants to change the world. What's Your Creative Type? is peppered with pop-culture studies of famous artists and illustrates each type with entertaining examples from legendary figures. Whether you're a seasoned artist or writer in search of inspiration or simply looking to explore your budding creative talents and motivations, What's Your Creative Type? has fresh and reliable advice and insight for you.
Download or read book Banish Your Inner Critic written by Denise Jacobs and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gives you the practical tools you need to own the room by owning yourself. Banish that inner devil’s advocate and become as powerful as you can be.” —Alan Cooper, software alchemist, cofounder of Cooper As the Founder and Chief Creativity Evangelist of “The Creative Dose,” Denise Jacobs teaches techniques to make the creative process more fluid, methods for making work environments more conducive to personal productivity, and practices for sparking innovation. Now, in her book, Banish Your Inner Critic, Denise shows you how to defeat those barriers that are holding you back and achieve success through a positive mental attitude. Banish Your Inner Critic shows you how to move beyond that mental block to your creative ideas, realize instant relief and lasting insight, and: · Identify and quiet the voice of self-doubt in your head · Master 3 powerful practices that will transform how you relate to yourself and your creativity forever · Overcome the fear of not knowing enough or not being original enough · Free yourself from comparisons, overwhelm, high self-criticism and self-sabotage · Transform your self-talk into a tool for success · Generate more creative ideas than ever before · Embrace your expertise and share your brilliance with the world Banish your Inner Critic to start doing your best work, achieving excellence, and contributing meaningfully to the world! “If you’re interested in diving deep into your own creative genius, this book will give you an abundance of ways to do that.” —Michelle Villalobos, “The Superstar Activator” & founder of The Women’s Success Summit “A book I believe will inspire a new generation to step out of the shadows and shine.” —Paul Boag, author of User Experience Revolution
Download or read book Creative Calling written by Chase Jarvis and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life isn’t about “finding” fulfillment and success – it’s about creating it. Why then has creativity been given a back seat in our culture? No longer. ** A Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly Bestseller ** Creativity is a force inside every person that, when unleashed, transforms our lives and delivers vitality to everything we do. Establishing a creative practice is therefore our most valuable and urgent task - as important to our well-being as exercise or nutrition. The good news? Renowned artist, author, and CreativeLive founder, Chase Jarvis, reminds us that creativity isn't a skill—it's a habit available to everyone: beginners and lifelong creators, entrepreneurs to executives, astronauts to zookeepers, and everyone in between. Through small, daily actions we can supercharge our innate creativity and rediscover our personal power in life. Whether your ambition is a creative career, completing a creative project, or simply cultivating a creative mindset, Creative Calling will unlock your potential via Jarvis’s memorable “IDEA” system: · Imagine your big dream, whatever you want to create—or become—in this world. · Design a daily practice that supports that dream—and a life of expression and transformation. · Execute on your ambitious plans and make your vision real. · Amplify your impact through a supportive community you’ll learn to grow and nurture.
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 Innovation Engine written by Tina Seelig and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity by international bestselling author and Stanford University Professor Tina Seelig, Ph.D., Innovation Engine distills a dozen years of teaching creativity and entrepreneurship into an interactive guide that turns our natural curiosity and imagination into concrete and action-oriented concepts that can be put into practice immediately. Seelig illustrates how motivation, mind-set, physical environment and social situations can work together to enhance creativity. She explains that creativity lies at the intersection of our internal world (knowledge, imagination, and attitude) and external environment (resources, habitats, and culture). By understanding how these factors fit together and influence one another, Innovation Engine provides the tools to jump-start our own innovation engines and allows us to look at every word, object, idea and moment as an opportunity for ingenuity.
Download or read book You Are a Message written by Guillaume Wolf and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You Are a Message is for the creative entrepreneur. Now that you started your creative journey, it's time to promote your work and learn how to build a meaningful brand. This book covers fundamentals of brand-creation. It's the book that shows how you can create a creative business while remaining true to your own values."--Author's website
Download or read book Creative Acts for Curious People written by Sarah Stein Greenberg and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • “A delightful, compelling book that offers a dazzling array of practical, thoughtful exercises designed to spark creativity, help solve problems, foster connection, and make our lives better.”—Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author and host of the Happier podcast In an era of ambiguous, messy problems—as well as extraordinary opportunities for positive change—it’s vital to have both an inquisitive mind and the ability to act with intention. Creative Acts for Curious People is filled with ways to build those skills with resilience, care, and confidence. At Stanford University’s world-renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, aka “the d.school,” students and faculty, experts and seekers bring together diverse perspectives to tackle ambitious projects; this book contains the experiences designed to help them do it. A provocative and highly visual companion, it’s a definitive resource for people who aim to draw on their curiosity and creativity in the face of uncertainty. Teeming with ideas about discovery, learning, and leading the way through unknown creative territory, Creative Acts for Curious People includes memorable stories and more than eighty innovative exercises. Curated by executive director Sarah Stein Greenberg, after being honed in the classrooms of the d.school, these exercises originated in some of the world’s most inventive and unconventional minds, including those of d.school and IDEO founder David M. Kelley, ReadyMade magazine founder Grace Hawthorne, innovative choreographer Aleta Hayes, Google chief innovation evangelist Frederik G. Pferdt, and many more. To bring fresh approaches to any challenge–world changing or close to home–you can draw on exercises such as Expert Eyes to hone observation skills, How to Talk to Strangers to foster understanding, and Designing Tools for Teams to build creative leadership. The activities are at once lighthearted, surprising, tough, and impactful–and reveal how the hidden dynamics of design can drive more vibrant ways of making, feeling, exploring, experimenting, and collaborating at work and in life. This book will help you develop the behaviors and deepen the mindsets that can turn your curiosity into ideas, and your ideas into action.
Download or read book The Art of Creative Thinking written by Rod Judkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to get inspired In short and engaging entries, this deceptively simple volume presents examples of creative thinkers from the worlds of writing, music, architecture, painting, technology, and more, shedding light on their process, and showing how each of us can learn from them to improve our lives and our work. Subjects range from the grueling practice schedule of the Beatles and the relentless revisions of Tolkien, Sondheim, and Picasso to the surprisingly slapdash creation of The Simpsons. You’ll learn about the most successful class in history (in which every student won a Nobel Prize), how frozen peas were invented, why J.K. Rowling likes to write in cafes, and how 95 percent of Apocalypse Now ended up on the cutting-room floor. Takeaways include: - Doubt everything all the time. - Plan to have more accidents. - Be mature enough to be childish. - Contradict yourself more often. - Be practically useless. - If it ain’t broke, break it. - Surprise yourself. - Look forward to disappointment. - Be as incompetent as possible.
Download or read book Creativity written by John Cleese and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ____________________________ We can all be more creative. John Cleese shows us how. Creativity is usually regarded as a mysterious, rare gift that only a few possess. John Cleese begs to differ, and in this short, immensely practical and often very amusing guide he shows it's a skill that anyone can acquire. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a writer, he shares his insights into the nature of the creative process, and offers advice on how to get your own inventive juices flowing. ____________________________ 'Humorous and practical ... Whether you're hoping to write a novel or paint a masterpiece, you're sure to feel inspired' OK Magazine 'His candor is endearing ... An upbeat guide to the creative process' Kirkus 'A jovial romp ... Cleese fans will enjoy, and writers and other artists will breeze through, picking up a few nuggets of wisdom along the way' The Festival Review 'A sincere and thoughtful guide to creativity, and a very useful book' Graham Norton 'Wise words on the serious business of being silly' Sunday Business Post
Download or read book Lichtenbergianism written by Dale Lyles and published by Lichtenbergian Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy gives you nine Precepts, ways to restructure your thinking about how you create and why so that you can just get to work and create the work of your dreams.
Download or read book How to be Creative If You Never Thought You Could written by Tera Leigh and published by Northlight. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at novices, explains how to use rubber stamps, decorative painting, collage, découpage, metal and wire crafts, bookmaking and papermaking, flower arranging, and mosaics to make creative items.
Download or read book You Are Creative written by Ghylenn Descamps and published by Get Creative 6. This book was released on 2020 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What sparks your creativity? Lists of what you love? A collaged vision board? Creating a mind map? Organized by weeks and days into a year of small 15-minute challenges, You Are Creative! offers easy ways to help your innate creativity blossom. Every day there's a new exercise, activity, or prompt to promote creative growth. For artists, entrepreneurs, students, and anyone who wants to live a more fulfilling life, this journal will guide them on the journey.
Download or read book You Are Creative written by Ykk and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to uncover the greatest secret about creativity that will instantly transform you into creative person? Then this book is for you. This extraordinary book written for the entire family, provides you with the key to unlock the hidden treasures of your mind. A single idea from this book may ignite a spark that that could revolutionize your life. Written in a unique inimitable style, the book takes you to tantalizing journey of discovery, entertainment, amazement and awakening through its well-crafted, practical and inspirational principles illustrated by captivating stories that capture your imagination. In fact, once you started, you may not be able to put the book down! Dr.YKK breaks new ground on simplicity in applying creativity techniques. Through his research, he pioneers what he calls the Three Primary Creativity techniques. With these techniques, switching on your creative brain is a breeze! The provocative Mindxercises at the end of every bloom (chapter) stimulates into you to look at any new situation from a new perspective. Another benefit is that these Mindxercises provide creative entertainment and togetherness for your whole family.Reading this book is an exhilarating and unforgettable Mind Unzipping experience! It will make a positive difference to your life.
Download or read book Instant Creativity written by The INSTANT-Series and published by Instant Series Publication. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Instant-Series Presents "Instant Creativity" How to Be Creative Instantly! Having problem coming up with great ideas? Struggling with thinking of solutions to problems keeping you awake all night? Feeling stuck with forever trying to find your muse for the next big thing in your magnum opus? What you need is a sudden jolt boost of creativity to get your creative juice flowing and going. "But, but, I'm not creative," you say? Hogwash! All of us have the capacity for creativity and to be creative. Remember when you were a kid when you had tireless energy for curiosity and creativity that adults had to hush you up for your endless crazy ideas and boundless imagination, with their hearts being in the right place to get you to direct your creativity more effectively and realistically...but at the same time restricting it. Now as adults ourselves, we have become more monotonous by life and less active with our creative minds, burdened with responsibilities one would expect from being a grown-up - i.e., work, pay the bills, take care of family, etc. - that when it comes time needing to be creative, we feel like our creativity is no longer there. Well, newsflash, creativity is always there. Whenever you're not feeling creative at a particular point, it is blocked and you only need to find that right spark of inspiration to let it out again. Did you know you could channel your creativity at will? Creativity may come from within, but it can be triggered via external stimuli like movements and sensations, such as sights and sounds...for how often have you listened to a certain music for inspiration or gotten it from simply glancing out at nature? Within "Instant Creativity": * How to apply science to hack creativity through physical movements to easily force yourself to get creative whenever you need to at a snap. * How to speed up creative thinking before tackling any real-world creative endeavor to effortlessly generate many ingenious creative ideas. * How to handle unexpected problems using the "creative what-if visualization" for assisting the creative process to come up with instant solutions. * How to use the "DEEP Method" to find hidden inspirations within your immediate surrounding regardless how mundane it is for creativity. * How to develop and maintain long-lasting creativity by following a famous Japanese company's acronym of "Anima Sana In Corpore Sano." * Plus, custom practical "how-to" strategies, techniques, applications and exercises on how to be more creative. ...and much more. "Instant Creativity" will give you that kick you need - and no, we're not talking about drugs but it's the next closet thing to actually drinking healthy creative juice, if such thing exists :) - to jumpstart you into creative hyperdrive. Unclog your creative juice, and unlock your creativity waiting to be unleashed now!
