E-book Category: Arts
E-book Title: Secrets of Creativity
Author: Simon Mitchell
Book Description: Creativity is a bit like Pandora's Box - when you open yourself to it, you never know quite what will come out ! This is because the process of creativity involves using the unconscious mind - allowing leaps of intuition that can often solve problems very quickly. Creativity is an essential tool for managing change in the 21st Century.
Change is pretty much the only constant in this Universe. But even more than this - creativity is the single most important factor that will ensure our survival on this planet.
In the West we are using up resources as if we have 5 planets to exploit. We humans are incredibly wasteful, pumping the poisons we create into our own water and air, filling our food with pharmaceuticals. One thing becoming abundantly clear in the 21st century is that if we want a sustainable planet - we are going to have to get by on less. Many responsible people are already doing this voluntarily - by 'downsizing' or 'downshifting'.
One of the best uses of creativity involves coming up with new solutions to problems. Creative responses often 'change the game' completely by redefining the problem or seeing it in another light.
Here's an example: In Africa, a small village found water very deep in the ground and it was a hard pump or a long pull to get it up the well. They installed a childrens' play roundabout near the water source and rigged it to a pump that fills a large header tank with the water. Everybody wins - the village children have a play area and the villagers now have a pressure fed water supply.
Just one application of creativity - joining a 'free' energy supply with an energy need to improve resources. When our power sources are getting so expensive - it literally pays to conserve them.
Creativity also helps us with change at a personal level. It helps with changes in relationships with yourself, your loved ones, your community, your society, your planet. And when change is hotting up around us - creativity comes into its own as a desirable and utterly useful human trait.
Secrets of creativity and effective personal change are not taught in schools or colleges, unless you are very lucky. Creativity involves QUESTIONING WHAT IS and this is often an unattractive trait in most of our educational systems and our 'national slavery' to GDP and a materialistic way of relating to the world. Creativity involves thinking flexibly and thinking 'out of the box'. It often involves looking at things from another angle.
In todays changing world - creativity gives you the EDGE.
Personal creativity gives you the ability to welcome change and turn it to your advantage. It gives you the power to see resources where nobody else can.
It gives you the personal power to TRANSMUTE seemingly unwanted changes happening around you into something favourable. A creative response can LET YOU OFF STRESS altogether.
That's right - things like potential FAILURE into VICTORY.
PAIN and SADNESS into JOY and LAUGHTER.
You come up smelling of roses every time !
You always seem to land on your feet !
Creativity is a most desirable trait that will help people to see you as a highly resourceful person - a leader.
'Secrets of Creativity' is compiled from a practical study of creativity that has taken place over 21 years of the author's life as a researcher, writer and artist. It gives you unique and focused research into creativity, answering the all important questions: - what is creativity?
- where does creativity come from?
- why do we need creativity?
- how is creativity stimulated?
In addition you will have more than 25 exercises to help stimulate and structure your creative thinking. These mental tools give you the edge in facing change TODAY. Like a God who plays dice and laughs. With a truly creative approach to life - you can never lose ! With a creative approach to life - attaining your goals becomes a whole lot easier. The exercises in 'Secrets of Creativity ' will help you develop alternative thinking techniques to promote your flexibility of thought if you are 'logical' - or your structuring of ideas if you are more 'intuitive'. Sharpen your ability for creative responses and find great ideas and unique solutions to problems, whatever your field of activity. When widespread changes are effecting all of our lives, creativity is the single most important human trait in facing uncertainty. We transform threats into opportunities and negativity into positive hope. In today's world you can't afford to be without the essential trait of Creativity. 'Secrets of Creativity' has contains 14,400 words with colour illustrations in classic PDF 'easy to read' format (no scrolling). More... | 
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