Creative Ability category: 443 books
Me, Myself, and Us
The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In the past few decades, personality psychology has made considerable progress in raising new questions about human nature-and providing some provocative answers. New scientific research has transformed old ideas about personality based on the theories of Freud, Jung, and the humanistic psychologies...
A Whole New Mind
Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
New York Times Bestseller
An exciting--and encouraging--exploration of creativity from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain"...
Play at Work
How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
**Do games hold the secret to better productivity? **
If you’ve ever found yourself engrossed in Angry Birds, Call of Duty, or a plain old crossword puzzle when you should have been doing something more productive, you know how easily games hold our attention. Hardcore gamers have spent...
Perennial Seller
The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
**The book that Inc. says "every entrepreneur should read" and an FT Book of the Month selection...
How did the movie The Shawshank Redemption fail at the box office but go on to gross more than $100 million as a cult classic?**
How did The 48 Laws of Power miss the bestseller...
Mother Reader
Essential Literature on Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays, and fiction, mothers describe first-hand the changes brought to their lives by pregnancy, childbirth,...
by Charles Bezerra
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
It is already clear that the creative principles we are using to guide our abstractions and to conceive the reality around us are obsolete and in urgent need of revision. Inspired by the holographic paradigm, as well as by some other concepts from quantum physics, this book suggests an alternative...
The Power of Different
The Link Between Disorder and Genius
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A powerful and inspiring examination of the connection between the potential for great talent and conditions commonly thought to be “disabilities,” revealing how the source of our struggles can be the origin of our greatest strengths.
In The Power of Different, psychiatrist and bestselling...
Play
How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our happiness and intelligence throughout our lives
We've all seen the happiness on the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing...
Improvisation Express
Know How to Improvise and Think Fast on Your Feet
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Know How to Improvise and Think Fast on Your Feet
Have you ever found yourself being put on the spot talking to somebody unexpectedly or being placed in the spotlight giving an impromptu speech to random people where you have idea what to say? What about finding yourself in some kind of either...
Flow
The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
THE BESTSELLING CLASSIC ON 'FLOW' – THE KEY TO UNLOCKING MEANING, CREATIVITY, PEAK PERFORMANCE, AND TRUE HAPPINESS
Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a...
Soon
An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
“Well-researched…[Soon] argues that in many cases eminent figures have done great work while putting off work they were supposed to be doing. Procrastination might, for some people, be part of innovation and the creative process.” — Wall Street Journal
A fun and erudite celebration...
by Mary Pipher, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, Another Country, and The Shelter of Each Other comes an inspirational book that shows how words can change the world.
Words are the most powerful tools at our disposal. With them, writers have saved lives and taken them, brought...
Da Vinci Decoded
Discovering the Spiritual Secrets of Leonardo's Seven Principles
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Author Michael Gelb ignited the current fascination with all things Da Vinci with his runaway bestseller, How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. Just as that book showed readers how to use the seven Da Vincian principles to develop their creative potential, his new book,...
Outsider Art
Visionary Worlds and Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Outsider art has exploded onto the international art scene, gaining widespread attention for its startling originality and visual power. As an expression of raw creativity, outsider art remains associated with self-taught visionaries, psychiatric patients, trance mediums, eccentric outcasts, and unschooled...