Wired to Create

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. Free Download Wired to Create [ author ] Scott Barry Kaufman [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr I enjoyed reading this book it is engaging, and full of intriguing information about creativity Some of the information in this book is well known and documented in other books But I did learn a lot from this book, so I definitely recommend it.The book is well organized in chapters that deal with factors that seem to contribute to creativity These factors are Imaginative play, passion, daydreaming, solitude, intuition, openness to experience, mindfulness, sensitivity, turning adversity into I enjoyed reading this book it is engaging, and full of intriguing information about creativity Some of the information in this book is well known and documented in other books But I did learn a lot from this book, so I definitely recommend it.The book is well organized in chapters that deal with factors that seem to contribute to creativity These factors are Imaginative play, passion, daydreaming, solitude, intuition, openness to experience, mindfulness, sensitivity, turning adversity into advantage, and thinking differently I learned that creative minds are both messy and complex Creativity is not the same as IQ Creative writers score high in both tests for psychological health and in psychopathology They are simultaneously mentally healthier andmentally ill than the average person George Bernard Shaw wrote, We don t stop playing because we grow old we grow old becaus...Fabulous read As a creative individual myself I m a novelist , I was very interested in the characteristics, and manifestations, of creativity in highly creative people Though the book made me feel good about myself that I have all the ten traits that creative people tend to have, it also challenged me to do some things differently in my life, to do evenin my art and writing I was already pretty happy about the stories I write though I m always open toimprovement , but I see now Fabulous read As a creative individual myself I m a novelist , I was very interested in the characteristics, and manifestations, of creativity in highly creative people Though the book made me feel good about myself that I have all the ten traits that creative people tend to have, it also challenged me to do some things differently in my life, to do evenin my art and writing I was already pretty happy about the stories I write though I m always open toimprovement , but I see now that I can innovate evenThe point that we need to have the courage to do things differently in our art, even when most people reject or dislike it, is very impor...I was very disappointed by this book I didn t learn anything new it was basically a Cliff Notes version of all of the creativity gurus that I have already read collated into this one book This might be helpful to you if you are new to creativity research, but if you want some practical advice on helping with your creative habits and output, go to the source material Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi anything he has ever written on the t...It s a short book with a large number of quotes and extensive notes What that means is that Wired to Create is a nice little review of a large amount of material about our current understanding of creativity There isn t a lot of original material here, and that s okay But I do feel it falls short of being the inspirational source it might have been.I want one orof these things from a non fiction book 1 Tell a good story reads like fiction, but isn t 2 Teach me something I didn t alre It s a short book with a large number of quotes and extensive notes What that means is that Wired to Create is a nice little review of a large amount of material about our current understanding of creativity There isn t a lot of original material here, and that s okay But I do feel it falls short of being the inspirational source it might have been.I want one orof these things from a non fiction book 1 Tell a good story reads like fiction, but isn t 2 Teach me something I didn t already know3 Challenge me to have a different perspective about something I thought I knew4 Inspire me to try something or inspire me to learnabout a subject This book had a little bit of each of these things, but less than I would have liked Much of the ma...Do you whistle while you work Or do you work with focus and rigid intensity Do you sing through your chores Or do you just get them done Does your mind wander when you take a shower Or do you just shower off Are you madly liberal and the suddenly sharply conservative Or does everyone know exactly where you stand politically Do people call you crazy on a regular basis Or do people think you are calm and logical Let me guess, you do are all those things because you arewait f Do you whistle while you work Or do you work with focus and rigid intensity Do you sing through your chores Or do you just get them done Does your mind wander when you take a shower Or do you just shower off Are you madly liberal and the suddenly sharply conservative Or does everyone know exactly where you stand politically Do ...If you ve never read anything about creativity, this book is a pretty good start However, if you ve read any articles on this subject, you will be disappointed Each chapter is an interesting overview, but they are all a bit incomplete, all leave you with the feeling that there are so muchto explore.I requested this book from the library after reading an exerpt in an online article Huffington Post, maybe I m interested in psychology and sociology, but prefer less academic books on the subject This was a perfect melding of informational and engaging to the average reader.In Wired to Create, Kaufman and Gregoire give insight into what makes creative people different Citing a wealth of books and articles on the neuroscience and psychology of creativity, they ve have broken down, by chapt I requested this book from the library after reading an exerpt in an online article Huffington Post, maybe I m interested in psychology and sociology, but prefer less academic books on the subject This was a perfect melding of informational and engaging to the average reader.In Wired to Create, Kaufman and Gregoire give insight into what makes creative people different Citing a wealth of books and articles on the neuroscience and psychology of creativity, they ve have broken down, by chapter, all the different components Apparently, creative people have messy minds as well as messy emotions There also seems to be a correlation between creativity and mental health problems Oddly enough, they also show a greater depth of joy and a higher degree of savoring life Some of what I read came as no surprise Creative people engage in imaginative playoften than those less creative They daydream, enjo...O carte despre ce, cum i de ce fac oamenii creativi, de la inovatori i p n la scriitori, pictori, muzicieni RecomandAn amazing book regarding the human mind, andspecifically, the creative mind Artists of all kinds will find this book informative For those who are not artists, it is a wonderful exploration on creativity As an artist myself, it gave me greater understanding of myself, my creative process, my o...Absolutely LOVED this.

• English
• 15 February 2017
Scott Barry Kaufman
• Hardcover
• 288 pages
• 0399174109
• Scott Barry Kaufman
• Wired to Create