Be Creative: Essential Steps to Revitalise Your Work and Life - Softcover

Lucas, Bill; Claxton, Guy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 056348764X ISBN 13: 9780563487647

Publisher: BBC Active, 2004

Synopsis

Creativity is a major economic force of the 21st Century – and a vital part of everyday life. To achieve harmony, balance and personal success in our lives we need to think more creatively, become self-aware and respond to changing circumstances in a flexible and effective way.

 

With practical exercises and inspiring examples, Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas demonstrate how to break away from old habits and free up your mind. The show you how to appreciate uncertainty, entertain outrageous opposites and stay open to the forces of ambiguity and possibility. Inklings, hunches, imagination, humour and even dreams can all play their part in liberating your creativity.

 

• Access Creativity: How to surf your own inner-net, and how to soften up to find inspiration when thinking too hard gets in the way.
• Creativity at Work: How to develop workplaces and build teams that support new thinking and creative dialogue, and allow ideas to germinate.
• Living Creatively: How to take things in, communicate well, uncover possibilities you never dreamed of – and make them work.

About this title

About the Author

Guy Claxton is a renowned consultant and lecturer, and the author of Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind. Bill Lucas is a sought-after speaker and strategist, and the author of Power Up Your Mind and Happy Families.

From the Back Cover

Creativity is a major economic force of the 21st Century – and a vital part of everyday life. To achieve harmony, balance and personal success in our lives we need to think more creatively, become self-aware and respond to changing circumstances in a flexible and effective way.

 

With practical exercises and inspiring examples, Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas demonstrate how to break away from old habits and free up your mind. The show you how to appreciate uncertainty, entertain outrageous opposites and stay open to the forces of ambiguity and possibility. Inklings, hunches, imagination, humour and even dreams can all play their part in liberating your creativity.

 

• Access Creativity: How to surf your own inner-net, and how to soften up to find inspiration when thinking too hard gets in the way.
• Creativity at Work: How to develop workplaces and build teams that support new thinking and creative dialogue, and allow ideas to germinate.
• Living Creatively: How to take things in, communicate well, uncover possibilities you never dreamed of – and make them work.

Edition details

• Publisher: BBC Active
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 056348764X
• ISBN 13: 9780563487647
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242