Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life
- 5h 15m
- Shelley Carson
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2010
Research-based techniques that show everyone how to expand creativity and increase productivity
Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson’s provocative book, published in partnership with Harvard Health Publications, reveals why creativity isn't something only scientists, investors, artists, writers, and musicians enjoy; in fact, all of us use our creative brains every day at home, work and play. Each of us has the ability to increase our mental functioning and creativity by learning to move flexibly among several brain states.
- Explains seven brain states or "brainsets" and their functions as related to creativity, productivity, and innovation
- Provides quizzes, exercises, and self-tests to activate each of these seven brainsets to unlock our maximum creativity
Your Creative Brain, called by critics a ‘new classic’ in the field of creativity, offers inspiring suggestions that can be applied in both one’s personal and professional life.
About the Author
Shelley Carson, Ph.D., teaches, conducts research, and publishes on the topics of creativity, psychopathology, and resilience at Harvard University. Her work has been featured on the Discovery Channel, CNN, and NPR, and she has won multiple teaching awards for her popular course Creativity: Madmen, Geniuses, and Harvard Students.
In this Book
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Your Creative Brain—Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life
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Preface
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Wanted: Your Creative Brain
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Your Mental Comfort Zone
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Tour Your Creative Brain
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Brainsets and the Creative Process
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Opening the Mind: Accessing the Absorb Brainset
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Imagining the Possibilities: Accessing the Envision Brainset
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Thinking Divergently:Accessing the Connect Brainset
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Shaping the Creative Idea: Accessing the Reason Brainset
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Recognizing Useful Ideas: Accessing the Evaluate Brainset
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Using Emotion Creatively: Accessing the Transform Brainset
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Performing Creatively: Accessing the Stream Brainset
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Flexing Your Creative Brain
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Applying the Brainsets to Real-World Creativity
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