Wired to create : unraveling the mysteries of the creative mind

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Wired to create : unraveling the mysteries of the creative mind

Title remainder

unraveling the mysteries of the creative mind

Statement of responsibility

Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire

Creator

• Kaufman, Scott Barry, 1979-

Contributor

• Gregoire, Carolyn

Subject

• Creative ability
• Creativity
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Creative Ability
• SELF-HELP -- Creativity
• Creative ability
• Self Concept
• Self-actualization (Psychology)
• Self-actualization (Psychology)
• SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth | General

Language

eng

Summary

• "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 glimpse inside the "messy minds" of highly creative people. Revealing the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, along with engaging examples of artists and innovators throughout history, the book shines a light on the practices and habits of mind that promote creative thinking. Kaufman and Gregoire untangle a series of paradoxes-- like mindfulness and daydreaming, seriousness and play, openness and sensitivity, and solitude and collaboration - to show that it is by embracing our own contradictions that we are able to tap into our deepest creativity. Each chapter explores one of the ten attributes and habits of highly creative people: Imaginative Play * Passion * Daydreaming * Solitude * Intuition * Openness to Experience * Mindfulness * Sensitivity * Turning Adversity into Advantage * Thinking Differently With insights from the work and lives of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Proust, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Edison, Josephine Baker, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, musician Thom Yorke, chess champion Josh Waitzkin, video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and many other creative luminaries, Wired to Create helps us better understand creativity - and shows us how to enrich this essential aspect of our lives."--
• "Based on the authors' wildly popular article in the Huffington Post called "18 Things That Creative People Do Differently" (which generated 5 million views and 500,000 Facebook shares in one week), this well-researched and engaging book reveals what we know about creativity, and what anyone can do to enhance this essential aspect of their lives and work"--

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• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

153.3/5

Index

index present

LC call number

BF408

LC item number

.K368 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

BF 408

NLM item number

K21w 2015