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    Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
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    Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
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    Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind

    Written by Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire

    Narrated by Nick Podehl

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    About this audiobook

    Is it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity?

    Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman's groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire's popular article in the Huffington Post Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the "messy minds" of highly creative people. Revealing the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, along with engaging examples of artists and innovators throughout history, the book shines a light on the practices and habits of mind that promote creative thinking. Kaufman and Gregoire untangle a series of paradoxes-like mindfulness and daydreaming, seriousness and play, openness and sensitivity, and solitude and collaboration-to show that it is by embracing our own contradictions that we are able to tap into our deepest creativity. Each chapter explores one of the ten attributes and habits of highly creative people:

    • Imaginative Play * Passion * Daydreaming * Solitude * Intuition * Openness to Experience * Mindfulness * Sensitivity * Turning Adversity into Advantage * Thinking Differently

    With insights from the work and lives of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Proust, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Edison, Josephine Baker, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, musician Thom Yorke, chess champion Josh Waitzkin, video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and many other creative luminaries, Wired to Create helps us better understand creativity-and shows us how to enrich this essential aspect of our lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 29, 2015
    ISBN9781501271557
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    • 5/5
      Great Book. Not perfect but covered some areas I have been waiting for someone to finally see about being a creative.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book because it explained curiosity better than I’ve ever heard & helped validate my rebel ways!
    • 5/5
      One of the most complete books I've heard on creativity.