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61) Your creative brain: seven steps to maximize imagination, productivity, and innovation in your life
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
"Filled with research-based techniques for expanding creativity and increasing productivity This provocative book reveals why sitting in front of a light box can increase your creativity more than listening to a Bach concerto as example. The author Shelley H. Carson, a Harvard psychologist, explains that creativity isn't something only scientists, investors, artists, writers, and musicians enjoy, but rather all of us use our creative brains every...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Offers ways to upgrade creativity while practicing mindfulness so that anyone can achieve breakthroughs in any area of their life. Looking to upgrade your creative abilities? Core Creativity offers ways to go beyond the limitations of ordinary creativity to access the core creativity that comes from the very center of your being: the depths of your unconscious. Ronald Alexander has decades of experience working with core creatives-artists who regularly...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Remember that time you screwed up simple math or forgot the name of your favorite song? What if someone told you that such embarrassing "brain farts" are actually secret weapons, proof of your superiority to computers and AI? In Scatterbrain, we learn that boredom awakens the muse, distractions spark creativity, and misjudging time creates valuable memories, among other benefits of our faulty minds. Throughout, award-winning neuroscientist Henning...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"Harness your mind's innate tendency to wander, stall, rest, and unfocus and become more productive--in the boardroom, living room, or classroom. To finish tasks and achieve goals, most people believe that more focus is the solution. We rely on to-do lists, calendar reminders, noise-blocking headphones, and sometimes medication to help us concentrate--even though these tactics often fail to substantially improve productivity. Drawing on the latest...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simon Baron-Cohen reveals the surprising answer to two apparently distinct questions: Why are humans so inventive? And why does autism exist? The first question hangs over almost every human endeavor: business people want to know how to innovate. Cognitive psychologists want to understand the nature of creativity. Evolutionary scientists and comparative psychologists want to understand why we are capable of such cultural complexity and diversity,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. Bogost reveals that games...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
First, Howard Gardner conquered long held misconceptions about 'intelligence' and 'understanding'. Now, drawing conclusions from the lives of extraordinary individuals like Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, and Virginia Woolf, Howard Gardner presents a revolutionary new psychology of creativity and leadership. Here, in this dynamic presentation for the classroom, discover where leaders and creators come from. In creativity and leadership, Gardner...
Author
Publisher
Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Creative Path is an inquiry into the creative process from philosophical, psychological, spiritual, and practical points of view. In this welcoming work on the creative process, Carolyn Schlam encourages the reader to embark upon his or her own journey of discovery, identity, and wonder through art. The author started her career in art under the tutelage of master teacher Norman Raeben in the Carnegie Hall Studios in New York. Raeben's students...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A look at genius, through portraits of 12 iconic figures in fields ranging from music to medicine, to explore what leads certain people to reach their creative heights early in life, whereas others don't uncover their potential until their later years"--
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"The twentieth century was marked by an emphasis on productivity-how to make more widgets efficiently. The best leaders were those who successfully managed for productivity, embracing such philosophies as Six Sigma and Quality Circles (such as those proposed by W. Edwards Deming in our own books Out of the Crisis and The New Economics). The twenty-first century is about a different kind of work-knowledge work-and as a result, needs a different emphasis....
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
ÁgilMente es un libro sobre nuestro talento más preciado y único: la habilidad que tenemos para imaginar y ser más creativos. A través de estas páginas vas a lograr desarrollar yodo tu potencial y a entender los mecanismo de tus propios aprendizajes, a comprender cómo utilizar los sentidos, a ampliar la memoria, a focalizar la atención, a controlar las emociones negativas y a disfrutar de las positivas.
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79) The hero is you: sharpen your focus, conquer your demons, and become the writer you were born to be
Author
Series
Publisher
Conari Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This book helps writers understand and make the most of their creative processes, from getting an idea to producing a finished work. Each chapter explores a single step in the creative process and coaches writers through the challenges in a way that is intuitive and organic"--
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