Imagine: How Creativity Works
by:
Jonah Lehrer (author)
Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output? From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the new...
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Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output?
From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. Shattering the myth of muses, higher powers, even creative "types," Jonah Lehrer demonstrates that creativity is not a single gift possessed by the lucky few. It's a variety of distinct thought processes that we can all learn to use more effectively...
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
3520700000577
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Pages no: 279
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Language,
Science,
Business,
Art,
Self Help,
Education,
Sociology,
Psychology,
Design
What an arrogant, lying scumbag. If you bought his book, Simon & Schuster would give you a refund if you have problem with it. "Mr. Lehrer, then a 31-year-old wunderkind of the journalism and publishing worlds, had fabricated quotes from Bob Dylan and recycled his own work from one publication ...
I just finished Gladwell's Outliers (and re-read Carr's "The Shallows"), so I was excited to start Lehrer's Imagine -- How Creativity Works. While the book gamely tries to define the creative impulse (how it works, where it occurs, how it can be fostered, etc), in the end, the subject proves a littl...
This man makes science writing an art form. His clarity when it come to explains the workings of the mind for the creative process is second to none.The second half of the book is excellent as well.He covers all the best collaborative processes and studies the best examples of companies and circumst...
I really enjoyed reading this book, and was so happy that it talked about the ineffective "brainstorming" nonsense. I liked hearing from artists like Yo Yo Ma and David Byrne. I was somewhat disappointed that expect for a brief jaunt into Israel, the author did not venture much into countries outs...
It seemed like all this was was stories that show creativity in different ways. They were interesting (I really liked the barbie story!), but I wasn't really amazed by any of them.I think the only thing I really remember is that you have to be willing to fail to succeed (in the last chapter, not a q...
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