Download or read book Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker written by Dorte Nielsen and published by BIS Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People who are good at creating ideas are good at seeing connections. Could teaching people to see connections be a way to help them be more creative? Over the years, there's a need for a book on creativity that complements the teaching of the creative process and tools and gives you a practical approach to how to enhance your innate ability to think creatively. This book as an opportunity to dispel the myth that creative talent is something possessed by a gifted minority. This is the opportunity to pass on 'the secret' of highly creative people to a much wider audience. It's a chance to give others the knowledge, techniques, and training they need to enhance their own innate creativity and lead the way to fun, fulfillment, invention, innovation, and change. It's a unique book that combines a very hands on and practical approach with a solid scholarly foundation.
Download or read book Creative Thinker s Exercise Book written by Dorte Nielsen and published by BIS Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hands-on workbook with exercises that strengthen your creativity. How to train your ability to make connections others don't.
Download or read book Little Creative Thinker s Exercise Book written by Dorte Nielsen and published by BIS Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By enhancing your ability to identify connections, you can enhance your creativity. This exercise book especially for kids strengthens their ability to recognise connections. The exercises are based on the theory of the book The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker, as well as observations in neuroscience, and seventy years of creativity studies. This exercise book is based on a dynamic balance of theory, technique, and exercises- it's a practical hands-on workbook. It's the perfect outlet to get your hands dirty and dive into exercises that strengthen one's ability to see and make connections. This book is for those seeking to enhance their creativity. It can be used to: develop one's creative capacity, train underlying mechanisms in creative thinking, enrich educational purposes and increase idea production. Little Creative Thinker's Exercise Book is for children aged 4 to 12 who are eager to indulge in exercises to enhance their innate creativity by identifying connections.
Download or read book Cracking Creativity written by Michael Michalko and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Thinkertoys, this follow up brings innovative creative thinking techniques within reach, giving you the tools to tackle everyday challenges in new ways. Internationally renowned business creativity expert, Michael Michalko will show you how creative people think—and how to put their secrets to work for you in business and in your personal life. You don't have to be a genius to solve problems like one. Michalko researched and analyzed hundreds of history's greatest thinkers across disciplines—from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso—to bring the best of their techniques together and to teach you how to apply them in your own life. Cracking Creativity is filled with exercises and anecdotes that will soon have you looking at problems and seeing many different solutions.
Download or read book The Power of Creative Thinking written by Seth Houston and published by Inspired Mind Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHY NOT CHANGE YOUR LIFE? Here is your complete reference and roadmap to dramatically enhance and revolutionize your spiritual, emotional, and mental state. These profound principles in this book have shown thousands of people the fastest, shortest, and surest way to achieve long-lasting joy, inner peace, and total fulfillment. So what are you waiting for? You too can start this amazing journey and you will never be the same! You will refer to this guide again and again. You will discover how to: Gain a deeper understanding of self and the meaning of life Uncover your life purpose and live-out your full potential Mentally process and channel positive thinking to create a desirable lifestyle Improve self-awareness and break free from stress, fear, worry and grief Enhance your creativity for better health, wealth, and wholesome relationships Activate the Christ Consciousness to live a well balanced life Seth Houston both tenderly and powerfully gift s his readers with wisdom and practices that invite them to flourish, to realize their highest potential. I highly recommend this book to those who consider their spiritual development to be the most impactful influence upon all aspects of their lives. -Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of "Life Visioning" Also, he was featured in the movie trailer entitled "The Secret" If you have been waiting for the desperately needed solutions oft en missing fr om spiritual text, this book is for you. Houston's accomplishments are phenomenal; this stellar work should be placed on every serious truth-seekers bookshelf. -Khalel Hakim, Ph.D. "The Power of Creative Thinking" is absolutely enlightening! You will transform every aspect of your life; when practicing these principles. -Dr. Lim Thien Thien, MD. For more than a quarter of a century, Seth Houston has been helping people to discover their spiritual gift s that have transformed their lives. He has deeply touched the hearts and minds of thousands throughout the United States; with his speaking engagements, group lecturing, spiritual counseling, and personal coaching. He is also caring a deeper message by performing humanitarian services in the Philippines and the rural areas of Arusha Tanzania, Africa."
Download or read book The Divergent and Convergent Thinking Book written by Dorte Nielsen and published by BIS Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - An introduction to divergent and convergent thinking - Guidelines to enhance your innovative thinking - Hands-on exercises to strengthen your creativity
Download or read book Creative Thinkering written by Michael Michalko and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why isn’t everyone creative? Why doesn’t education foster more ingenuity? Why is expertise often the enemy of innovation? Bestselling creativity expert Michael Michalko shows that in every ?eld of endeavor — from business and science to government, the arts, and even day-to-day life — natural creativity is limited by the prejudices of logic and the structures of accepted categories and concepts. Through step-by-step exercises, illustrated strategies, and inspiring real-world examples, he shows readers how to liberate their thinking and literally expand their imaginations by learning to synthesize dissimilar subjects, think paradoxically, and enlist the help of the subconscious mind. He also reveals the attitudes and approaches that diverse geniuses share — and anyone can emulate. Fascinating and fun, Michalko’s strategies facilitate the kind of lightbulb-moment thinking that changes lives — for the better.
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 Creativity Inc The Expanded Edition written by Ed Catmull and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture, and on all he learned during the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve. “Might be the most thoughtful management book ever.”—Fast Company For nearly thirty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner eighteen Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the twenty-five movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: • Give a good idea to a mediocre team and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. Creativity, Inc. has been significantly expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. It features a new introduction, two entirely new chapters, four new chapter postscripts, and changes and updates throughout. Pursuing excellence isn’t a one-off assignment but an ongoing, day-in, day-out, full-time job. And Creativity, Inc. explores how it is done.
Download or read book How to Have Creative Ideas written by Edward de Bono and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody wants to be creative. Creativity makes life more fun, more interesting and more full of achievement, but too many people believe that creativity is something you are born with and cannot be learned. In How to Have Creative Ideas Edward de Bono - the leading authority on creative thinking - outlines 62 different games and exercises, built around random words chosen from a list, to help encourage creativity and lateral thinking. For example, if the task were to provide an idea for a new restaurant and the random word chosen was 'cloak', ideas generated might be: a highwayman theme; a Venetian theme with gondolas; masked waiters and waitresses. Or, if asked to make a connection between the two random words 'desk' and 'shorts', readers may come up with: both are functional; desks have 'knee holes' and shorts expose the knees; traditionally they were both male-associated items. All the exercises are simple, practical and fun, and can be done by anyone.
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 A Lifetime of Secrets written by Frank Warren and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book description to come.
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 The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women written by Gail McMeekin and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning Strategies of Highly Successful Women McMeekin’s second “12 secrets” book on creativity and success. From the popular creative coach Gail McMeekin, founder of Creative Success LLC with worldwide clients and author of the bestselling The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, comes a book with hundreds of examples of how creative women entrepreneurs and business leaders have used proven strategies to succeed. Take positive risks and develop your talents and passions. We are experiencing a work and lifestyle revolution and creative Renaissance. Women are leaving companies and starting new businesses. Virtual companies are springing up, giving us choices about where and how we live and work. And, we are switching from the age of logical thinking to the age of conceptual thinking. This book may change your life. We all have the software to be creative, but many of us have been shamed or criticized, and our creative sparks are smoldering beneath layers of fear and lack of confidence. Gail McMeekin’s book blasts through that and gets you excited again about your potential. McMeekin interviews 31 of today's most successful women, integrating their insights with her own proven success strategies to help you get onto the road to success. Each chapter has a series of challenges to guide you in discovering your own personal success. Read about: • Successful women doing everything from being an astronaut, a politician, a coach, or a watercolor painter • Gremlins you must defeat to claim your true gifts and prosper and feel content • How to take your best ideas and leverage them into a prosperous business that supports your life purpose and values If you are a fan of Gail McMeekin’s other books The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women Journal and The Power of Positive Choices, or have read books such as Conscious Creativity, Awakening Your Creative Soul, or The 30-Day Creativity Challenge; your next read should be The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women.
Download or read book The Art of Creative Thinking written by John Adair and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Creative Thinking provides clear, practical guidelines for developing your powers as a creative thinker. Using examples of entrepreneurs, authors, scientists and artists, John Adair illustrates a key aspect of creativity in each chapter. Stimulating and accessible, this book will help you to understand the creative process, overcome barriers to new ideas, learn to think effectively and develop a creative attitude. It will help you to become more confident in yourself as a creative person. The Art of Creative Thinking gives you a fresh concept of creative thinking and it will guide you in developing your full potential as a creative thinker. New ideas are the seeds of new products and services, and this book will open the door to them.
Download or read book Thinking Lenses written by Charlotte Kim Boed and published by Charlotte Kim Boed. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want creative freedom and personal development, then this is the book for you. "Thinking Lenses" - how to find your creative voice is for photography lovers and enthusiasts around the world. You can use this book for education, business, research, fun, entertainment, personal development, inspiration, hobby, and so on. This book is for beginners as well as advanced photographers. "Thinking Lenses" is the ultimate 6-step method that guides you in finding your own creative voice. It can unlock your creative potential and realize your personal photo dreams. This book contains essential photo exercises, creative inspiration, and personal development. The author, photographer and art historian Charlotte Kim Boed's mission is to empower you to find your personal photo voice and activate your creativity. Charlotte says: “I want to inspire you to work creatively with your photography and to find your personal photo voice as photographer. I am interested in "creativity", as it brings a lot of joy and pleasure in my life. I want to share my working experience with you. I think that creative photography can enrich your life, as well as fun and enjoyment goes hand in hand with creativity". Working for over 25-years with photo creativity, she says: "When we are born, everybody is born with creativity. As we get older, we seem to lose and forget our creativity. Find home again and enjoy yourself, Charlotte suggests". See more about Charlotte and the creative photo school at: www.kimplusphoto.com
Download or read book Sparks of Genius written by Robert Root-Bernstein and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the cognitive tools that lead to creative thinking and problem-solving with this “well-written and easy-to-follow” guide (Library Journal). Explore the “thinking tools” of extraordinary people, from Albert Einstein and Jane Goodall to Mozart and Virginia Woolf, and learn how you can practice the same imaginative skills to become your creative best. With engaging narratives and examples, Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein investigate cognitive tools such as observing, recognizing patterns, modeling, playing, and more. Sparks of Genius is “a clever, detailed and demanding fitness program for the creative mind” and a groundbreaking guidebook for anyone interested in imaginative thinking, lifelong learning, and transdisciplinary education (Kirkus Reviews). “How different the painter at the easel and the physicist in the laboratory! Yet the Root-Bernsteins recognize the deep-down similarity of all creative thinking, whether in art or science. They demonstrate this similarity by comparing the accounts that various pioneers and inventors have left of their own creative processes: for Picasso just as for Einstein, for Klee just as for Feynman, the creative impulse always begins in vision, in emotion, in intuition. . . . With a lavishly illustrated chapter devoted to each tool, readers quickly realize just how far the imagination can stretch.” —Booklist “A powerful book . . . Sparks of Genius presents radically different ways of approaching problems.” —American Scientist
