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All around you, minds are shaped by social media, ads, junk food, drugs, the news, and other stimulation. It is easy to give in to these influences and never offer your gift to the world. It is easy to let yourself be molded into a mindless employee, a greedy consumer, and a broke patient.

One out of every three people go to work everyday to an unfulfilling job. The Gallup organization reminds us every few years that nearly 70 percent of employees are actively disengaged. If you ask them how they feel about their work, many will respond with, “It’s just a job”, or “It gets me by.” Author Todd Searle was never satisfied with the work that he was doing. He knew there had to be more. In 32 Regrets: A Guide to Reclaiming Creativity, Todd explores the intersection between creativity and entrepreneurship.

The research of Notre Dame Professor Jessica Payne shows that the non-waking hours are incredibly valuable for your day-to-day life, especially for helping to commit information to memory and for problem-solving.

How do people come up with truly original ideas? The answer is to think outside the box - way outside. For the past decade, Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade, professors of innovation and strategy at IMD Business School, have studied inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs, and artists. These people, or “aliens,” as the authors call them, are able to make leaps of creativity, and use five patterns of thinking that distinguish them from the rest of us.

What propels some individuals to reach extraordinary creative heights in the earliest years of life while others discover their passions decades later? Are prodigies imbued with innate talent? Do late bloomers reveal their talents because their skills require life experience and contemplation? Through engaging storytelling and intriguing historical and cutting-edge scientific research, best-selling author and acclaimed journalist Claudia Kalb explores these questions to uncover what makes a prodigy and what drives a late bloomer.

Are you ready to learn the vital keys that will enable you to build profound emotional intelligence, create trust, and establish immediate rapport? Are you prepared to gain a negotiation advantage in every possible situation and win? Do you want to know how to avoid being the gullible victim of schemes and avoid being the victim of unscrupulous individuals? Then this book is for you! Reading People and Psychology is full of intriguing psychological secrets that positively influence emotional response and encourage idea acceptance.

Portal to Genius is the long-awaited sequel to the award-winning, best-selling audiobook, The Jackrabbit Factor. It is a powerful story that illustrates how to enlist, recognize, and trust inspired ideas for solving "impossible" problems, and achieving remarkable results. This audiobook doesn't just tell you how to succeed, it facilitates the mindset shift that is necessary for success.

Have you ever arrived on the scene of a house fire to find a frantic woman in the driveway? As a firefighter, you know instinctively what this means: there is a child inside. You immediately enter "the zone" because you know what to do. This is based on your training and experience. The feeling of being "in the zone", is referred to in the field of positive psychology as "the flow".

Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. All of us must work our way through the empty page, the blank screen, writer's block, confusion, chaos, and doubt.

Usa l’inconscio per imparare durante il sonno. Da sempre gli studenti sanno benissimo che, per raggiungere risultati soddisfa-centi, devono lavorare duramente, e indugiano con fatica sui libri sino a notte inoltrata.Con il metodo creato da David Curtis è possibile essere altrettanto recettivi sen-za faticare: ci si può, letteralmente, “dormire sopra” e imparare più velocemente e più a fondo rispetto alle tecniche tradizionali.

When we're kids, our parents tell us that being creative is fun, fun, fun. But when you decide to turn art into your career, whether that's painting, writing, drawing, or sculpting Edgar Allan Poe out of earthworms, that's when things get tough. In this insightful and heartfelt guide, artist and speaker Phil Hansen shares his hard-won wisdom from the front lines of life as a professional creative. Hansen provides advice for the difficult moments - the slumps, the creative blocks, the times when something you love doesn't resonate with the world - and gives you the pep talk you need....

Após realizar um grande estudo sobre várias personalidades fascinantes e bem-sucedidas–entre políticos, estrategistas, artistas, cientistas e inventores–Robert Greene percebeu que todas essas pessoas, independentemente de sua área, da cultura ou do momento histórico a que pertenciam, seguiram um padrão similar em suas conquistas. E concluiu que o caminho para a maestria pode ser percorrido por qualquer um de nós.

Does your toaster oven make you feel shamefully inadequate with his lofty ideals and Jeffersonian views of the world? Is the letter Q the wrong shade of yellow? Are you frequently bothered by abstract images and geometric shapes falling from the sky? If so, this book can help. The Toaster Oven Mocks Me is a humorous memoir that chronicles Steve's discovery, concealment, and eventual acceptance of synesthesia.

Cómo no hay una forma segura de saber si lo que imaginamos es valioso, normalmente preferimos que sean otros los que imaginen por nosotros. Pero estamos equivocados.

Secrets of the Mind reveals Ralph Waldo Emerson’s keys for accessing the expansive powers of the “one mind.” The sequel to Living from the Soul, this book rephrases and remixes Emerson’s writings on the principles and powers of thought. It concludes with practical advice on work, money, and success.

How did Richard Ford's cat influence his work as a novelist? Creativity is an elusive subject. We enjoy its fruits - movies, novels, paintings, songs - but rarely are we privy to what happens in the creative process. In Spark, Julie Burstein traces the roots of some of the twenty-first century's most influential and creative thinkers, including Joyce Carol Oates, Yo-Yo Ma, David Milch, Isabel Allende, and Joshua Redman. Burstein pulls back the curtain to reveal the sources of these artists' inspiration and the processes that bring their work into being.

Über das kleine Glück und wo es zu finden ist "Eigentlich müsste ich doch glücklich sein ..." Im Grunde genommen ist Annas Leben nicht schlecht, doch zwischen Alltagssorgen und endlosen Routinen ist ihr der Funke im Leben abhandengekommen. Dies ändert sich, als sie in einem Antiquitätengeschäft ein Tagebuch aus den 1920er-Jahren entdeckt.

La creatividad no es exclusiva de los artistas o los genios, del mismo modo que el futbol no es exclusivo de la primera división, así que reconcíliate con tu talento.

La conformación de nuestra cultura más que favorecer la creatividad, muchas veces la sabotea. Aquí algunos de sus síntomas para que los detectes y los evites.

Creative thinking is now the number one skill needed in the workforce but creativity cannot thrive unless there is a culture of psychological safety and belonging.