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A guide to creativity in the digital age, this book presents ten transformative principles to help readers discover their artistic side and build a more creative life. Offers advice and encouragement to help readers foster creativity and be artistically productive in a wide variety of endeavors. You don't need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That's the message from the author, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere,...
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"This cookie has never felt like a smart cookie no matter how hard she tries, especially in comparison to all the clever cupcakes and brilliant rolls in the bakery. Will a dash of creativity and a sprinkle of confidence be enough to help her learn that perfect scores and having all the answers aren't the only ingredients for intelligence?"--Provided by publisher.
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Elizabeth Gilbert "offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages us to uncover the "strange...
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Americans are addicted to happiness. When we're not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from armchair philosophers and clinical psychologists to the Dalai Lama on how to achieve a trouble-free life: Stumbling on Happiness; Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment; The Art of Happiness: A Handbook...
6) Dragon curse
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Unwanteds quests volume 4
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2019.
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Ten years after Alex and Aaron Stowe brought peace to Quill and Artimé, Alex and his Unwanteds set out to rescue his sister, Thisbe, from dragon land leaving her twin, Fifer, behind.
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©2008
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While organizations claim to value creativity, they are often at a loss when attempting to conjure up novel ideas, particularly in a world where technology has made information readily available to everyone. As a result, leaders ask, "Where will the next big idea come from?" In response, they allocate significant resources for innovation; however the source of creative inspiration has remained a mystery. Science has shown that it's possible to create...
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[2021]
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Effective creative work is not a nice-to-have, it's a necessity - it’s the only way you’ll stand out in a fiercely competitive marketplace. Whether you're in digital, direct or advertising, the CEO of an agency or just starting out, How to do better creative work has been written for you.
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Grow Your Creativity Skills
Creativity is a natural and renewable resource that exists in every person and helps us inspire, communicate, persevere, problem solve, rise to the occasion, and spark innovation. Creativity skills can be developed, nurtured, and cultivated.
In the talent development context, TD professionals apply creativity to build personal capability and competitiveness, create talent opportunities, solve talent problems, and address...
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[2022]
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"The Creative Contrarian presents 20 strategies to provoke your thinking, enhance your creativity, break out of groupthink, or convey prudent warnings in a changing and unpredictable world. The Wise Fool is the archetypal contrarian known for creativity, candor, irreverence, and humor. The book helps you "Stay Foolish" by taking a whack at the assumptions that keep you mired in conventional and stale solutions. By employing Wise Fools, kings, pharaohs,...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Tim Harford's Messy by Instaread Preview: Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford is a researched consideration of the virtues of unorganized, diversified, and otherwise untidy systems in different aspects of life. One of the benefits of messy situations and distracting environments is that they fuel creative work. Unexpected obstacles arising from messy situations can force creative people...
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Holographic Mind: Thinking the Future explains how innovative thinkers create original ideas. Based on Eileen E. Cooper's doctoral research, it compares the hologram to non-verbal creative thinking skills. It produces a model that educates futurists to envision unorthodox realities that solve problems by capturing hints of future realities. In sum, Holographic Mind: -validates both imagery and muse as abstract forms of cognition -demystifies how the...
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Are you ready to step up and soar into your highest and best? Here is the key to fully accessing and activating your courage, creativity and curiosity as you expand your capacity for love and joy in all aspects of your life.
Now that you have healed old emotional wounds with the Nurturing Your Inner Child program, you're ready to unleash those powerful and beautiful aspects of the child that you were born with, to take your self-help motivation to...
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The book presents a contrasting study of the views of ancient Indian, Chinese, Greek, Middle Eastern, and Russian philosophers on creativity. It also discusses the subject of creativity as viewed by Freud, Jung, Adler, the Gestalt school, and other prominent Western psychologists. A special place is provided for an overview of the history of Soviet psychology, and of the revival of psychology in Azerbaijan after the fall of the Soviet Union. The author...
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Are you ready to step up and soar into your highest and best? Here is the key to fully accessing and activating your courage, creativity and curiosity as you expand your capacity for love and joy in all aspects of your life.Now that you have healed old emotional wounds with the Nurturing Your Inner Child program, you're ready to unleash those powerful and beautiful aspects of the child that you were born with, to take your self help motivation to...
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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 and adults tend to face more negative stigmas than that of children, yet also use their companions in a way that is more complex yet similarly to...
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Millions of artists, entrepreneurs, crafters, and solopreneurs dream of making a living doing what they love. But turning their vision into a viable business plan can feel like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Jennifer Lee knows what it's like to make the entrepreneurial leap - and how to do it successfully. The key is showing creative types how to use - rather than stifle - the imagination and intuition that make them creative in the...
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Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins andhis colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly greatenterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times....
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