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Author: James Phelps Publisher: ISBN: 9780692481110 Category : Languages : en Pages : 196
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What do Albert Einstein, Justin Timberlake and Sir Richard Branson have in common? Incredibly talented? Extremely famous? Cultural game-changers? Yes to all. And...they all have (or, with Einstein, had) ADHD. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Not so long ago we only associated the condition with wild children running rampant through classrooms and department stores, disrupting the lives of everyone within range - Dennis the Menace, a whirling dervish of disorder and destruction. And, it's true. Many children with ADHD have behavioral issues, take Ritalin, and need special education teachers. But, you might be surprised at how many adults have the disorder, many of whom have gone undiagnosed and needlessly suffer from unproductive careers, failed relationships and issues with addiction. However...according to research, and the lives lived by countless numbers of successful people, ADHD can actually be a blessing. Blazing into the Creative Wilderness is all about how to create a successful, fulfilling life by not only managing ADHD, but harnessing the power and special gifts that come from having it. If you or a loved one has ADHD - you or they are blessed! With the "disorder" comes amazing abilities that, if understood and put to use, actually become an advantage, especially for people who are "creative types." Blazing into the Creative Wilderness provides insights, exercises, practices and encouragement that helps you build a system for taking charge of your life, your art, your career. And the great thing about Blazing into the Creative Wilderness is that the tips, tutorials, and practices can be used by anyone who wants to make their mark in life.
Author: James Phelps Publisher: ISBN: 9780692481110 Category : Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
What do Albert Einstein, Justin Timberlake and Sir Richard Branson have in common? Incredibly talented? Extremely famous? Cultural game-changers? Yes to all. And...they all have (or, with Einstein, had) ADHD. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Not so long ago we only associated the condition with wild children running rampant through classrooms and department stores, disrupting the lives of everyone within range - Dennis the Menace, a whirling dervish of disorder and destruction. And, it's true. Many children with ADHD have behavioral issues, take Ritalin, and need special education teachers. But, you might be surprised at how many adults have the disorder, many of whom have gone undiagnosed and needlessly suffer from unproductive careers, failed relationships and issues with addiction. However...according to research, and the lives lived by countless numbers of successful people, ADHD can actually be a blessing. Blazing into the Creative Wilderness is all about how to create a successful, fulfilling life by not only managing ADHD, but harnessing the power and special gifts that come from having it. If you or a loved one has ADHD - you or they are blessed! With the "disorder" comes amazing abilities that, if understood and put to use, actually become an advantage, especially for people who are "creative types." Blazing into the Creative Wilderness provides insights, exercises, practices and encouragement that helps you build a system for taking charge of your life, your art, your career. And the great thing about Blazing into the Creative Wilderness is that the tips, tutorials, and practices can be used by anyone who wants to make their mark in life.
Author: Lynn Weiss Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications ISBN: 0878339604 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 225
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A.D.D. and Creativity raises and answers questions about the dynamic between the two components and shows how they can be a wonderful gift but also a painful liability if not properly handled. Real-life stories and inspirational affirmations woven throughout.
Author: David H. Cropley Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139490079 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 409
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With few exceptions, scholarship on creativity has focused on its positive aspects while largely ignoring its dark side. This includes not only creativity deliberately aimed at hurting others, such as crime or terrorism, or at gaining unfair advantages, but also the accidental negative side effects of well-intentioned acts. This book brings together essays written by experts from various fields (psychology, criminal justice, sociology, engineering, education, history, and design) and with different interests (personality development, mental health, deviant behavior, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism) to illustrate the nature of negative creativity, examine its variants, call attention to its dangers, and draw conclusions about how to prevent it or protect society from its effects.
Author: Ed Catmull Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0679644504 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 367
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The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture, and on all he learned during the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve. “Might be the most thoughtful management book ever.”—Fast Company For nearly thirty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner eighteen Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the twenty-five movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: • Give a good idea to a mediocre team and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. Creativity, Inc. has been significantly expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. It features a new introduction, two entirely new chapters, four new chapter postscripts, and changes and updates throughout. Pursuing excellence isn’t a one-off assignment but an ongoing, day-in, day-out, full-time job. And Creativity, Inc. explores how it is done.
Author: Ann Belford Ulanov Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1603449957 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 142
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Analyst and author Ann Belford Ulanov draws on her years of clinical work and reflection to make the point that madness and creativity share a kinship, an insight that shakes both analysand and analyst to the core, reminding us as it does that the suffering places of the human psyche are inextricably—and, often inexplicably—related to the fountains of creativity, service, and even genius. She poses disturbing questions: How do we depend on order, when chaos is a necessary part of existence? What are we to make of evil—both that surrounding us and that within us? Is there a myth of meaning that can contain all the differences that threaten to shatter us? Ulanov’s insights unfold in conversation with themes in Jung’s Red Book which, according to Jung, present the most important experiences of his life, themes he explicated in his subsequent theories. In words and paintings Jung displays his psychic encounters from1913–1928, describing them as inner images that “burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me.” Responding to some of Jung’s more fantastic encounters as he illustrated them, Ulanov suggests that our problems and compulsions may show us the path our creativity should take. With Jung she asserts that the multiplicities within and around us are, paradoxically, pieces of a greater whole that can provide healing and unity as, in her words, “every part of us and of our world gets a seat at the table.” Taken from Ulanov’s addresses at the 2012 Fay Lectures in Analytical Psychology, Madness and Creativity stands as a carefully crafted presentation, with many clinical examples of human courage and fulfillment.
Author: Oshin Vartanian Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262314703 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 331
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Experts describe current perspectives and experimental approaches to understanding the neural bases of creativity. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological fundamentals to systems neuroscience and neuroimaging, leading scholars describe the latest theoretical, genetic, structural, clinical, functional, and applied research on the neural bases of creativity. The treatment is both broad and in depth, offering a range of neuroscientific perspectives with detailed coverage by experts in each area. The contributors discuss such issues as the heritability of creativity; creativity in patients with brain damage, neurodegenerative conditions, and mental illness; clinical interventions and the relationship between psychopathology and creativity; neuroimaging studies of intelligence and creativity; the neuroscientific basis of creativity-enhancing methodologies; and the information-processing challenges of viewing visual art. Contributors Baptiste Barbot, Mathias Benedek, David Q. Beversdorf, Aaron P. Blaisdell, Margaret A. Boden, Dorret I. Boomsma, Adam S. Bristol, Shelley Carson, Marleen H. M. de Moor, Andreas Fink, Liane Gabora, Dennis Garlick, Elena L. Grigorenko, Richard J. Haier, Rex E. Jung, James C. Kaufman, Helmut Leder, Kenneth J. Leising, Bruce L. Miller, Apara Ranjan, Mark P. Roeling, W. David Stahlman, Mei Tan, Pablo P. L. Tinio, Oshin Vartanian, Indre V. Viskontas, Dahlia W. Zaidel
Author: Willis Harman Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0874773350 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 273
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Insight is the mind’s magic in action, solving problems, understanding relationships, creating new images—with a speed and certainty unavailable to ordinary consciousness. Breakthrough insights go even further. They take a quantum leap beyond ordinary creativity and our previous ways of looking at things—to a whole new method of resolving our difficulties. Almost all of us have experienced such moments in relation to work oriented or personal problems, and wish we could have them more often—in fact, we can. According to Willis Harman, Ph.D., president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and Howard Rheingold, human behavior columnist for Esquire, the main reasons we fail to have this kind of breakthrough experience more frequently are that we don’t believe we can, and we don’t apply the known techniques which can generate these insights. In Higher Creativity, the authors discuss this self-imposed limitation and argue persuasively for an enlarged image of everyone’s creative potential. They examine the secret history of inspiration through contemporary and historical accounts of profound creative breakthroughs, and finally they describe a surprisingly simple and reproducible sequence that has often triggered these insights for outstanding innovators in business, science, and the arts. These apparently special people became special by harnessing, sometimes quite accidentally, the awesome power of the unconscious in the service of higher creativity. Following their example and using historically validated procedures for reprogramming the unconscious, you can learn to capture the lightning for personal breakthrough in your own life.
Author: Publisher: Academic Press ISBN: 0128138033 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 266
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Creativity and Humor provides an overview of the intersection of how humor influences creativity and how creativity can affect humor. The book's chapters speak to the wide reach of creativity and humor with different topics, such as play, culture, work, education, therapy, and social justice covered. As creativity and humor are individual traits and abilities that have each been studied in psychology, this book presents the latest information. - Explains how, and why, humor enhances creativity - Explores the thought processes behind producing humor and creativity - Examines how childhood play is the basis for both creativity and humor - Discusses cross-cultural differences in humor and creativity - Reviews creativity and humor in politics, teaching and relationships
Author: Barbara Esham Publisher: ISBN: 9781603368162 Category : ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) Languages : en Pages : 0
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David Sheldon finds it difficult to pay attention and follow directions. His teacher, Mrs. Gorski, has had enough of David's brainstorms, but David "brainstorms" a way to manage his "wiggle fidgets."
Author: Kathryn P Haydon Publisher: ISBN: 9780996385695 Category : Languages : en Pages : 84
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In business, education, and our personal lives, we achieve innovation and progress through creative thinking. Creativity for Everybody provides a fast overview so that anyone can take hold of their creative thinking and support the creativity of others. This innovative new book sets the stage for growth, and empowers you and those around you to use fresh thinking at home, at school, and at work. Creativity for Everybody combines the talents of a writer-poet-educator and a designer-artist-simplifier into a fun, quick read on the science of creativity. Its varied design elements (visual collages, photographs, line drawings, graphic art) and creative components (simple prose, poetry, sidelines, and delightful endnotes) invite you into an engaging reading experience.
Author: James Phelps
Author: James Phelps
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Author: Ann Belford Ulanov
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Author: Kathryn P Haydon