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Creative Struggle is Real

Stop procrastinating and start making
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Creative Struggle is Real offers an interactive journey for innovators, design strategists, entrepreneurs, and anyone confronting creative blocks. Holly Blondin guides readers through understanding their unique creative context, designing personalised creative practices, and maintaining momentum. The book helps reveal your imaginator type, encourages embracing your creative identity, and provides practical tools to overcome procrastination, enabling you to reach your full creative potential.
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Ideal for creative professionals, entrepreneurs, and those working with creative teamsβ€”including 'non-creatives'β€”who wish to gain recognition, make a positive impact, and strengthen their connection with collaborators through enhanced creativity.

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A practical guide to help you define creativity, put you in action and learn how to reach your full creative potential

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This book is for innovators, design strategists, entrepreneurs, and everyone who feels the pain of the struggle at some point while managing the distractions and noise that can block us from reaching our full creative potential. Creative Struggle is Real is an interactive journey with creative guidance and making tools to bring you closer to your unique creative capacities so you will never shy away from your creative genius again.

While the creative struggle may be inevitable, it doesn't have to feel impossible. The book is organised into three parts: Defining Your Creative Context, Designing Your Creative Practice, and Maintaining Your Creative Momentum. You will discover your imaginator type, become a superhero(ine), and define what creativity means to you.

The book walks you through practical and inspiring methods to make space and time for making, so you will never again have an excuse to procrastinate. In addition, every creative will design a unique creative practice that exercises creative muscle so you can keep your momentum going for the long term.

  • A practical, interactive guide to help you define creativity, put you in action, and design a creative practice that supports your creativity for the long term.
  • For creative professionals and "non-creatives" working with creative teams who want to make a positive impact and gain the connections and recognition they seek from team members and co-creators.
  • Learn how to reach your full creative potential.

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Praised as the best guide on creativity, Edward Rogoff, a professor of entrepreneurship, highlights the book's clear definition of creativity and practical approach. He notes that Blondin effectively supports readers in transforming frustration into creative action, offering simple and relevant tools to harness and amplify one's creativity for impactful results.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789063696702

Publisher: BIS Publishers B.V.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 May 2023

Country: Netherlands

Imprint: BIS Publishers B.V.

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 152

About the Author

Holly Blondin is an experienced professional with an MBA in marketing and Entrepreneurship from Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, NYC.

As a creative practitioner she knows just how real the creative struggle truly is. For nearly five decades, she has successfully worked through the challenges one faces while pursuing creative endeavors. She has collaborated and co-created with both creatives and non-creatives while working in various roles and creative industries as a professional performing artist, designer, entrepreneur and marketing and branding professional.

In addition, she has taught Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design and independently develops and facilitates multidisciplinary workshops, design thinking and innovation programs for global institutions.

Forever a New Yorker at heart, Holly currently resides in Barcelona

More information: https://hollyblondin.com/

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