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It isn't enough to just do your job anymore. In order to thrive in today's marketplace, all of us, regardless of our role, have to be ready to generate brilliant ideas on demand. Business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to establish effective practices that unleash your creative potential. Born out of his consultancy and his popular podcast, Henry has created a practical method for discovering your personal creative rhythm.

Feeling overwhelmed? How to Work Less, But Get More Done offers a refreshing, compassionate, and effective way to reclaim your time. If you want to get more done at work, start a business, or finally tackle those home projects — but it feels like you’re walking through quicksand — this book is for you. Even if you’re NOT neurodivergent, you’ll be amazed at the speed at which you start flying through tasks.

No importa sieres un artista gráfico, musical o de óleo, un artista de algún deporte, un escritor, pintor o diseñador...la creatividad se escapa fácilmente de cualquier mente. Sólo necesitas los diez pasos de Austin Kleon para poner en orden desde tu mente hasta tu escritorio y recuperar la creatividad y la confianza en aquello que creas.

“If you’ve ever felt like creativity was sometimes out of reach, this is the guide you’ve been waiting for.” —Laurie Santos, host of The Happiness Lab podcast Great ideas are all around us, waiting to be discovered—this illuminating guide offers accessible, research-backed advice on...

This quick wit sleep learning resource was designed to assist the listener in gaining self-confidence and social ease; expanding their creative capacity for humor and wit; becoming awake to the moment and to the paradoxes, ironies, discrepancies, and socially repressed honest experiences; and enhancing their abilities to humor themselves and the world around them.

En una época en la que los procesos de evaluación se estandarizan, las escuelas pasan por momentos difíciles y tanto estudiantes como educadores sufren una presión enorme, Robinson nos ofrece soluciones prácticas para terminar con el caduco sistema educativo actual heredado de la Revolución Industrial. Para lograrlo, propone darle a la educación un enfoque personalizado.

National Bestseller Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this “encouraging handbook” (Publishers Weekly) features essays on creativity, productivity, and writing from acclaimed authors including Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, Celeste Ng, Meg Wolitzer...

Insights and inspiration for anyone who makes art (or anything else) The Ultimate BuzzFeed Books Gift Guide - Official Selection From the creative mind and heart of designer Adam J. Kurtz comes this upbeat rallying cry for creators of all stripes. Expanding on a series of popular essays, this...

Author and former literary agent Nathan Bransford shares his secrets for creating killer plots, fleshing out your first ideas, crafting compelling characters, and staying sane in the process. Hear the guide that New York Times best-selling author Ransom Riggs called "the best how-to-write-a-novel book I've read."

The artists, musicians, and writers we think of as 'very creative' are just like us, except that they have spent time developing and realizing ideas and have found the confidence to share them with the world. None of this comes naturally. This wide-ranging book offers research, advice, and philosophy to fuel your understanding and passion for creativity.

By the author of How To Calm Your Mind, a practical guide to managing your attention—the most powerful resource you have to get stuff done, become more creative, and live a meaningful life Our attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today. Many of us recognize that our brains struggle...

Mind mapping is a learning method that helped thousands of people to overcome various professional and personal problems, by using a learning process that deals with both verbal and intuitive parts of the brain. This audiobook summarizes the complex process of learning mind maps in an easy way, relating it to everyday life. You will be guided through a detailed process based on how to use mind maps, with the help of everyday examples - like communicating, making presentations, and more, to give you a clear understanding on how mind maps work and how they can change your life.

"STORY BY NUMBERS" is an step-by-step, deep dive into story structure that will take your story from an underdeveloped storm of “cool ideas,” to a slick, compelling work with fully dimensional characters. It uses the protagonist’s inner conflict as the guide to developing plot points and meaningful conflicts.

Do you feel like you have reached a dead end in your life? Do you have dreams, but lack motivation? People believe that motivation is something that happens on its own; that one day they’re going to wake up feeling motivated and ready to change their lives. And they couldn’t be more wrong. Motivation is something you have to create for yourself, and this self-help book is going to show you how. You’re the Only Life Coach You Need will teach you the challenging yet incredibly rewarding art of self-motivation.

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover how 15 minutes a day can awaken your creative magic and spark joy Have you ever been so absorbed in writing, drawing, cooking, dancing, yoga, music or crafting that you lost track of time? In neuroscience, this is known as ‘flow’, a focused state where the...

From Joseph Jebelli, PhD, neuroscientist and author of In Pursuit of Memory, a groundbreaking exploration of the science of doing nothing and its benefits for the brain and body We are constantly told to make the most of our time, to work harder, to stop procrastinating. But what if all that...

In this book, experienced nonfiction writer Stephen Haunts shares his journey of writing his debut novel, Diary of a Martian, and offers essential insights into how to successfully plan, write, and prepare a novel for publication.

The purpose of this book is to provide you with a thorough picture of what Parkinson’s Law is, what effects this are being placed on our minds that this law shines a light on, how those effects manifest themselves in the physical world through our actions, the limits this can place on us, and what you can do to harness the power of those mental tendencies to benefit you.

Ob bei der Entwicklung und Umsetzung einer Idee oder für den Auftritt in Social Media - alle sollen und wollen immer kreativ sein. Aber ist Kreativität nicht ein Talent, über das nur einige wenige verfügen? Der Marketingexperte Seth Godin ist sich sicher: Das ist Unsinn! Schließlich macht auch Übung den Meister. Zum Beispiel Schreibblockaden - ein Mythos, denn jeder kann mithilfe von Godins einzigartiger Akimbo-Methode kreative Arbeit leisten.

Creative confidence sounds like some type of a fancy term for something, but in reality, it is a reference to the level of confidence that a person has when it comes to their own creativity. For example, if you have a lot of confidence when it comes to your creative abilities, then you have a lot of creative confidence. On the other hand, if you are someone that believes that you have no artistic ability, no musical ability, and no ability to think outside the box, then your creative confidence is probably very low.