Creative Ability category: 443 books
The Creative Curve
How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Big data entrepreneur Allen Gannett overturns the mythology around creative genius, and reveals the science and secrets behind achieving breakout commercial success in any field.
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We have been spoon-fed the notion that creativity is the province of genius -- of those favored, brilliant few whose...
Affect and Creativity
the Role of Affect and Play in the Creative Process
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Much work has been done on cognitive processes and creativity, but there is another half to the picture of creativity -- the affect half. This book addresses that other half by synthesizing the information that exists about affect and creativity and presenting a new model of the role of affect in...
by Michael C. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This book explores the MINDRAMP Creative Cycle, which offers a schematic structure for the creative process. Three primary objectives of the creative process are captured in three overarching phases: 1) Vision and Goal Setting, 2) Idea Generation, and 3) Action and Testing. Seven action stages propel...
Creative People at Work
Twelve Cognitive Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 1992
To demystify creative work without reducing it to simplistic formulas, Doris Wallace and Howard Gruber, one of the world's foremost authorities on creativity, have produced a unique book exploring the creative process in the arts and sciences. The book's original "evolving systems approach" treats...
Idea Hacks
Come up with 10X More Creative Ideas in 1/2 the Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Come up with 10x More Ideas AND Get Rid of Your Mental Blocks
Many of us want to be creative, but where are the ideas supposed to come from? You probably already know that simply wanting to get ideas isn’t enough to make them magically appear. Instead of getting frustrated and giving up,...
by Andy Green
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Creative input is inevitably required of the PR practitioner and yet there is a lack of real understanding of the mechanics of the processes involved. Creativity in Public Relations seeks to address this situation and explores the five 'Is' of the creative process, showing you techniques for stimulating...
Wired to Create
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Discover the ten things highly creative people do differently.
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...
Creating Minds
An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, G
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Howard Gardner changed the way we think about intelligence. In his classic work Frames of Mind, he undermined the common notion that intelligence is a single capacity that every human being possesses to a greater or lesser extent. Now building on the framework he developed for understanding intelligence,...
LSD, Spirituality, and the Creative Process
Based on the Groundbreaking Research of Oscar Janiger, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2003
An exploration of how LSD influences imagination and the creative process.
• Based on the results of one of the longest clinical studies of LSD that took place between 1954 and 1962, before LSD was illegal.
• Includes personal reports, artwork, and poetry from the original sessions...
by Ravyn Karasu
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
The idea of imaginary friends (creative companions) is pretty standard in the realm of child psychology. However, we never really see anything substantial about the notion of these companions in adolescents and adults, let alone the purpose or effects of those companions on those individuals. Adolescents...
by Peter Fritz Walter
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
‘Creative Genius’ is the second volume of Great Minds Series and the author’s main publication on his more than thirty years of genius research. In this book, the author, applying the 4-quadrant IQ scheme commonly used in genius research, reviews and portrays the lives of five highly creative...
When Walls Become Doorways
Creativity and the Transforming Illness
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
You are stronger than you think you are and more creative than you ever imagined.
Yet sometimes these strengths appear during a time of a weakness – when you are sick. Although illness may feel like an impassible barrier, it can be the doorway to a new and more creative existence....
Morning, Noon, and Night
Living the Creative Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2005
Creativity is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out the corners of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest and to which we cannot give a name. When I was young, I heard the voice, the ticking, had the dream,...
Deep Creativity
Inside the Creative Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Creativity is a popular topic, with books, workshops, and corporate training on the subject generating several hundred million dollars in annual revenue.
Offers groundbreaking insights into the nature of the creative process, based on Victor Shamas’ 30-year investigation of creativity.
Presents...