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The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker

How to Make Connections Others Don't
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The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker by Sarah Thurber and Dorte Nielsen offers a practical and neuroscience-backed guide to enhancing your creativity. Combining theory, techniques, anecdotes, and exercises, it reveals how highly creative people excel at making connections to generate ideas and breakthroughs. This book dispels the myth that creativity is limited to a gifted few, providing readers with knowledge and training to unlock their innate creative potential through a 21-exercise boot camp.
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Ideal for anyone seeking to boost their creative thinking, this book suits readers interested in self-help, personal development, and creativity enhancement. It's perfect for those who want a practical, scientifically grounded approach to generating better ideas and innovation.

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Supported by neuroscience, this book gives you: insights into how highly creative people think; fresh findings in neuroscience on connection making; training to help you make connections others don't; and, a boot camp with 21 creativity exercises.

People who are good at having ideas are good at seeing connections. Could teaching people to see connections be a way to help them be more creative?

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

Supported by the latest neuroscience, The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker gives you hands-on advice on how to enhance your own creativity. You will find it an inspiring combination of theory, techniques, anecdotes, and exercises to help you access better ideas and bigger breakthroughs.

People who are good at having ideas are good at seeing connections. Could teaching people to see connections be a way to help them be more creative? Over the years, there's been a need for a book on creativity that complements the teaching of the creative process and tools, providing you with a practical approach to enhancing your innate ability to think creatively.

This book offers an opportunity to dispel the myth that creative talent is something possessed by a gifted minority. It provides the chance to share 'the secret' of highly creative people with a much wider audience. This is your chance to gain the knowledge, techniques, and training needed to boost your innate creativity and lead the way to fun, fulfilment, invention, innovation, and change.

It is a unique book that combines a very hands-on and practical approach with a solid scholarly foundation.

The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker offers you:

  • Insights into how highly creative people think
  • The latest findings in neuroscience on connection making
  • Training to help you make connections others don't
  • A boot camp with 21 creativity exercises

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789063694159

Publisher: BIS Publishers B.V.

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 May 2016

Country: Netherlands

Imprint: BIS Publishers B.V.

Illustration: colour photographs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 164.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 176

About the Author

Dorte Nielsen is a creativity expert, author, keynote speaker, and the founder of FourSight Denmark. Dorte is the head of the department and the program director of Creative Communication, a BA education for Art Directors and conceptual thinkers at the Danish School of Media and Journalism. Sarah Thurber is managing partner of the FourSight company in the USA. A leader in innovation and creativity, Sarah specializes in developing research-based tools to enhance innovation and team performance. Connecting two continents, Dorte Nielsen from Denmark and Sarah Thurber from the U.S.A. are both recognized as creativity experts. In this book, they combine their diverse backgrounds in creativity research, design, business, teaching, and advertising to explore the minds of highly creative people and share a fun, effective methodology to help each of us develop our own unique creative potential. They both hold Masters of Science degrees in Creativity from the International Center for Studies in Creativity, where they were jointly awarded the Creative Achievement Award for developing a visual model of creative process now used in schools, Fortune 500 companies, and nonprofits around the world.

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