Whatever you do, says Dr. Eric Maisel, creativity helps you do it better. Creativity encourages the artist to paint more frequently and authentically. It allows a busy executive to see her options more quickly, make changes more fluidly, and become more self-directing and confident.
In this book, America's foremost expert on the psychological side of the creative process presents a complete one-year plan for increasing and unleashing your creativity. It includes two disucssions/exercises per week, and culminates in a guided project of your choice-from working on a current novel or symphony to planning a new home business or becoming a more effective supervisor.
By:
Eric Maisel
Imprint: Jeremy Tarcher
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 204mm,
Width: 114mm,
Spine: 20mm
ISBN: 9781585420292
ISBN 10: 1585420298
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 19 June 2000
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active
The Creativity BookIntroduction Part 1. Begin Week 1. 1. Make Creativity Your Religion Week 1. 2. Craft Ceremonies and Rituals Week 2. 3. Make Time Week 2. 4. Make Space Week 3. 5. Invest in Erasable Boards Week 3. 6. Settle into Mystery Week 4. 7. Get Anxious Calmly Week 4. 8. Do the Tiniest Thing Part 2. Be Human Week 5. 9. Forgive Yourself for All Your Failures Week 5. 10. Forgive Yourself, Period Week 6. 11. Forgive Others, Too Week 6. 12. Get Shells in Your Omelette Week 7. 13. Wrestle with Your Demons Week 7. 14. Stop Preening Week 8. 15. Dispute Boredom Week 8. 16. Make an Earth Landing Part 3. Be Mindful Week 9. 17. Rouse Out of Your Dream Sleep Week 9. 18. Lose Your Self-consciousness Week 10. 19. Use Your Brain Week 10. 20. Understand a Frog Thoroughly Week 11. 21. Study One Blade of Grass Week 11. 22. Analyze Week 12. 23. Synthesize Week 12. 24. Lose Yourself Part 4. Explore Week 13. 25. Explore Week 13. 26. Ask One Question Week 14. 27. Have Feathers Handy Week 14. 28. Carve Basalt Week 15. 29. Abstract Everything Week 15. 30. Reinvent the Wheel Week 16. 31. Innovate Week 16. 32. Leave for the Unknown Part 5. Go Deep Week 17. 33. Dive Week 17. 34. Buy Bewilderment Week 18. 35. Parachute into Enemy Territory Week 18. 36. Get Unacademic Week 19. 37. Put Up a Big Idea Week 19. 38. Get Nostalgic Week 20. 39. Incubate Week 20. 40. Expand with the Universe Part 6. Use Yourself Week 21. 41. Hire Yourself as a Consultant Week 21. 42. Open a Vein Week 22. 43. Get Ravenous Week 22. 44. Underpress Week 23. 45. Kill Maybe Week 23. 46. Build a Model Creator Week 24. 47. Look Where You Slipped Week 24. 48. Be Yourself Entirely Part 7. Connect Week 25. 49. Go Out Week 25. 50. Visit with Children Week 26. 51. Buddy Up Week 26. 52. Sing Together Week 27. 53. Extend a Tradition Week 27. 54. Get Lost in the Landscape Week 28. 55. Picture Your Audience Week 28. 56. Connect with People Part 8. Be Ambitious Week 29. 57. Want Everything Week 29. 58. Demand Grandeur Week 30. 59. Aim for a Response Week 30. 60. Play the Tallest Queen in History Week 31. 61. Change Radically Week 31. 62. Exhaust Yourself Week 32. 63. Build a World Week 32. 64. Feel Immortal Part 9. Be Truthful Week 33. 65. Show Yourself Week 33. 66. Reveal a Secret Week 34. 67. Serve Up a Sacred Cow Week 34. 68. Balk Week 35. 69. Make Difficulties Week 35. 70. Explain Yourself Week 36. 71. Aim for Truthfulness Week 36. 72. Live Your Truth Part 10. Be Love Week 37. 73. Renew Your Vows Week 37. 74. Love Logic and Intuition Week 38. 75. Locate Your Better Nature Week 38. 76. Help Friends and Strangers Week 39. 77. Love Another Person Week 39. 78. Be Sexual Week 40. 79. Reward Yourself Week 40. 80. Stubbornly Keep Loving Yourself Part 11. Work Week 41. 81. Wake Up Working Week 41. 82. Go Directly to Work Week 42. 83. Really Sweat Week 42. 84. Make Plans and Schedules Week 43. 85. Be Patient but Not Idle Week 43. 86. Become Water Week 44. 87. Pick Yourself Up Week 44. 88. Simply Create Part 12. Create Weeks 45-52. 89. Work on Your Creative Project
