Creative Ability category: 443 books
Creativity
Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The classic study of the creative process from the bestselling author of Flow
Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (“The leading researcher into ‘flow states.’” — Newsweek) reveals what leads to these...
The Empowered Mind
How to Harness the Creative Force Within You
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2006
The powerful techniques described in this book are designed to help you tap into and direct the creative force we all have within us, enabling you to more easily achieve your business and personal goals and gain tremendous rewards and satisfaction in every area of your life.
With the aid of...
The Art of Creative Thinking
89 Ways to See Things Differently
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
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...
Too Fast to Think
How to Reclaim Your Creativity in a Hyper-connected Work Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Our lives are getting faster and faster. We are engulfed in constant distraction from email, social media and our 'always on' work culture. We are too busy, too overloaded with information and too focused on analytical left-brain thinking processes to be creative. Too Fast to Think exposes how our...
Creativity Across Domains
Faces of the Muse
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse sorts through the sometimes-confusing theoretical diversity that domain specificity has spawned. It also brings together writers who have studied creative thinkers in different areas, such as the various arts, sciences, and communication/leadership. Each...
On Becoming an Artist
Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“All it takes to become an artist is to start doing art.”
–from On Becoming an Artist
On Becoming an Artist is loaded with good news. Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer shows us that creativity...
Explaining Creativity
The Science of Human Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Explaining Creativity is an accessible introduction to the latest scientific research on creativity. In the last 50 yearss, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have increasingly studied creativity, and we now know more about creativity that at any point in history. Explaining Creativity...
Write a Novel in 10 Minutes a Day
Acquire the habit of writing fiction every day
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
LEARN HOW TO WRITE FICTION BY WRITING EVERY DAY
Would you like to write but have no spare time?
Do you not know where to begin?
Write A Novel In 10 Minutes A Day will help you sculpt a full-length piece of creative writing in just ten minutes a day. Starting with a daily practical...
Rules for Mavericks
A manifesto for dissident creatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Rules for Mavericks: A Manifesto for Dissident Creatives by Phil Beadle is a guidebook to leading a creative life, to being a renaissance dilettante, to infesting your art form with other art forms, to taking a stand against mediocrity, to rejecting bloodless orthodoxies, to embracing your own pretension...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In the literature of information science, a number of studies have been carried out attempting to model cognitive, affective, behavioral, and contextual factors associated with human information seeking and retrieval. On the other hand, only a few studies have addressed the exploration of creative thinking...
by Olga Zbarskaya Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
How do we teach innovative thinking and stimulate creativity? Creative thinking is a highly desirable trait in today's world, where creativity lends the mental fitness and flexibility necessary to switch easily between patterns of thinking and contend with the constant changes that result from ongoing...
Group Creativity
Innovation through Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Creativity often leads to the development of original ideas that are useful or influential, and maintaining creativity is crucial for the continued development of organizations in particular and society in general. Most research and writing has focused on individual creativity. Yet, in recent years...
by David Kadavy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
"THE HEART TO START IS SOLID ADVICE FROM DAVID KADAVY. IT'S NOT TOO LATE."
—Seth Godin
"[KADAVY'S] LIVELY, MOTIVATING ENTRY INTO THE SELF-HELP GENRE."
—Publisher's Weekly
"READ IT, THEN SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. I LOVED IT."
—Jeff Goins, bestselling author of Real Artists Don't Starve
"I...
How to Fly a Horse
The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanity’s greatest creations...