Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind

Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind

Discover the ten things highly creative people do differently.Â

Is it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity?Â Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufmanâ€™s groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoireâ€™s popular article in the Huffington Post, Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the â€œmessy mindsâ€ 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 paradoxesâ€” like mindfulness and daydreaming, seriousness and play, openness and sensitivity, and solitude and collaboration â€“ 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 â€“ and shows us how to enrich this essential aspect of our lives.Â

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer TarcherPerigee
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-12-29
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	TarcherPerigee
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-12-29
Format	Kindle eBook