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Learn to trust your intuition and uncover insights that could lead to the next big thing. What do the Dyson vacuum cleaner, the GoPro camera, Starbucks, Instagram, Facebook, and Lululemon yoga pants have in common? Every one of them was the result not of data-driven analytics or corporate brainstorming sessions but a hunch - the intuitive understanding of a deep unmet need, informed by insight and foresight. Anxiety over being more innovative leads entrepreneurs to create solutions in search of problems.

All creatives are cursed. It's the subtle kind of curse. It's the kind you might not notice until you're 46 years old at a desk job wondering why you let the best years of your life slip away. It's the kind that keeps you paralyzed at 18 when you know you have something special to offer the world but everyone says you are too young.

Every man is born with scissors in his hand—but he doesn't know it. Not the scissors of a barber, but the scissors of decision, connection, and destiny. And whether he realizes it or not, his life will be trimmed, faded, and styled by three unavoidable partnerships: Classmates, Coworkers, and Kin.

The Theta Advantage: History's greatest creators—Einstein, Tesla, Edison—attributed their breakthroughs to moments between sleep and waking. That's theta (4-8 Hz): the brain frequency where imagination flows freely, intuition sharpens, and your subconscious solves problems your conscious mind can't touch.

In this selection, Maggie Hess delves into her schizo-affective diagnosis. Illuminating for all mentally ill people and their loved ones.

In this powerful and soulful guide, Grammy Nominated and Emmy-winning producer Timothy “Sonny King” Word takes you behind the curtain of modern music creation—blending personal testimony, real-world lessons, and spiritual grit into a blueprint for every artist who feels called to create. This isn’t a dry manual or a list of shortcuts. This is the journey—from raw desire to disciplined craft. Sonny shows you how to build your studio from the ground up, master rhythm, harmony, and melody, shape your unique sound, and create professional-level music with whatever tools you have.

Do you know that it’s almost impossible to find a successful writer who has published only one book? Virtually every widely acclaimed author has an extensive catalog of books. To join the elite ranks of those who write consistently, you need to learn how to stay prolific over the long term. And for that, the number one ingredient is self-discipline.

This short, fast paced, irreverent guide to creativity is for everyone who wants better ideas and to finish projects they inspire. In 21 short chapters you'll discover a fresh way to understand creative thinking, how ideas work, plus insights from decades of study on both how to be more productive and creative at the same time.

Everyone wants to be a writer, and they want to know what they can do to make that dream come true. However, most aspiring writers do not understand how to position themselves so they are ready when presented with an opportunity. They identify themselves as writers but have no writing samples, or their websites and social media talk all about their paintings or music but say nothing of who they are as writers.

Fiction Unboxed offers something that’s never been offered before: a naked look into two writer’s process, as they wrote and published a book in 30 days, from scratch, in front of the world. In 2013 Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant wrote and published 1.5 million words. The next year they showed the world how they did it. In May 2014, Johnny and Sean, along with their third partner David Wright, launched a Kickstarter campaign to see if their fans wanted to see how they wrote behind closed doors.

Written by musician/entrepreneur Dave Stewart and branding expert Mark Simmons, The Business Playground offers a revealing look at what creativity is and how to apply it in business through an inspiring mix of scientific studies, anecdotes, high-profile interviews, and thought-provoking games that you can play alone or with your co-workers.

From the beloved creator, workshop facilitator, and author of How to Not Always Be Working comes an approachable and practical guide to leaning into the unknown even when it feels as though everything around—and inside--us is in flux. Picking up where How to Not Always Be Working left off...

Our education system teaches us to follow rules and avoid risks, leaving your genius locked away. But your mind holds access to an endless supply of creative potential—a divine intelligence capable of attracting opportunities for creativity, connection, and abundance.

En este libro Marisol Salanova proporciona herramientas para conocer, cultivar y sacar el máximo partido a nuestra inteligencia artística, un tipo de pensamiento hasta ahora limitado a las élites. Porque, como bien argumenta la autora: «La inteligencia artística está desaprovechada, no hay que ser artista para tenerla y se trata de un valor que impulsa la creatividad». Con Inteligencia artística descubriremos cómo desarrollar nuestro potencial creativo para conocer aspectos fascinantes de nosotros mismos que probablemente no intuíamos.

The purpose of this book is to provide you with a thorough picture of what Parkinson’s Law is, what effects this are being placed on our minds that this law shines a light on, how those effects manifest themselves in the physical world through our actions, the limits this can place on us, and what you can do to harness the power of those mental tendencies to benefit you.

Everyone has a story, and helping people tell their stories has been Nancy Slonim Aronie’s life mission. Building on her acclaimed Memoir as Medicine, this new guide tackles the short personal essay. With warmth and humor, Nancy provides prompts, inspiration, and hard-won wisdom to empower you to write an unforgettable narrative. You’ll learn to begin with an irresistible hook (“kill ’em with the first line”) and employ compelling direct quotes, drama, vulnerability, universal themes, and self-reflection to get readers into your corner.

Ideas on a Deadline is the definitive book for creative people who have to deliver breakthrough ideas on demand. One of the most destructive myths about creativity is the idea that we need to wait for inspiration. But as artist Chuck Close said, "Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work." Whether you're a designer, writer, musician, or filmmaker, or an executive, engineer, teacher or salesperson, this book will show you how to "prime the pump" of your creativity, overcome the blocks, and deliver great ideas when you need them the most.

Tackle your thorniest problems using the wise fool's savvy strategies! The wise fool is the archetypal contrarian known for his creativity, irreverence, and humor. He looks at life in unorthodox ways and pushes back against the status quo. Throughout history, powerful decision-makers (Egyptian pharaohs, Chinese emperors, Persian sultans, and European kings) consulted wise fools to question the assumptions that kept them mired in stale and obsolete solutions.

So viel Gutes uns die digitale Informationswelt ermöglicht, sie stellt den Menschen und sein Gehirn auch vor ein riesiges Problem: die Steuerung unserer Aufmerksamkeit, unseres Fokus. Wir werden überflutet mit Input, der uns ablenkt von dem, was wirklich wichtig ist, uns emotional auflädt und nicht selten mit unguten Gefühlen ins Bett gehen lässt. Der Neurowissenschaftler und Psychiater Prof. Dr. Volker Busch bringt wieder Fokus und damit Ruhe und Klarheit in unser Leben.

Do you want to have more direction in your life? Take control of what’s happening and where you want your life to go. Masters of story Sean Platt and Johnny Truant have the answer for you, and it is the answer based entirely in story. For the last decade, Platt and Truant have been writing and publishing fiction that continues to touch the hearts of listeners around the world.