Psychology & Psychiatry : Creative Ability

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic ''right-brain'' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment-and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and more...

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Developing the ability to come up with new ideas can help businesses gain a competitive advantage over their rivals and can also be rewarding for the individual. This work shows you practical ways to become a creative thinker. It includes topics such as: Overcome barriers to creating new ideas; Broaden your vision; Build on new ideas; and more. more...

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Creativity 101 is full of keen and illuminating insight. And not incidentally, it is written with creative flair and great elegance. This ornithologist can sing.". -- Robert Olen Butler, Author, A Good. Scent from a Strange Mountain,. Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in. Fiction. When you think of a creative person, who do you conjure up? What do you think of when you think of a creative product or activity? What exactly is creativity? Is it possible to find creativity in different pockets and nooks of our culture?. However you think of creativity - whether you think of creativity - it is most likely different from how your neighbor thinks of it. There are many different ways in which someone can be creative, and there are almost as many different ways that people try to measure creativity. With this book, Dr. James C. Kaufman presents a brief and lively introduction to the field of creativity. Beginning with a historical overview of what creativity is and how it is defined, this innovative book explores the concept of creativity, its origins, and applications. Kaufman focuses on what he calls the "Four P's": person, product, process, and press. He also tackles four ongoing debates and research areas:.:.; The question of whether creativity is domain-general or domain-specific.; How creativity corresponds to different constructs such as personality, motivation, and intelligence.; The relationship between creativity and mental illness.; How creativity might (or might not) improve the guidance, selection, or hiring process. more...

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Are you stuck for inspiration? Have you run out of steam creatively? Coming up with new, inventive ideas is the key to the growth of any organisation, and this helpful guide is packed with tips on how to do it. more...

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All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative dress, dance, culture, art--that seems to indicate a mysterious and unexplained discontinuity between us and all other living things. This brute fact gives rise to some tantalizing questions: How did the artful mind emerge? What are the basic mental operations that make art possible for us now, and how do they operate? These are the questions that occupy the distinguished contributors to this volume, which emerged from a year-long Getty-funded research project hosted by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. These scholars bring to bear a range of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives on the relationship between art (broadly conceived), the mind, and the brain. Together they hope to provide directions for a new field of research that can play a significant role in answering the great riddle of human singularity. more...

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