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Feeling stifled by "shoulds" and yearning to find your authentic voice? Uncork your creativity with Brenda Ueland's timeless classic, "If You Want to Write." Originally published in 1938, this inspiring guide is more than just craft tips; it's a passionate manifesto for artistic independence. Ueland, a mentor to writers like Anaïs Nin and Flannery O'Connor, believes everyone has a unique story to tell and urges you to silence self-doubt and embrace the inherent joy of writing.

Joseph Romm, one of Rolling Stone magazine’s top "100 Agents of Change", has focused his talents on helping us all to increase our language intelligence and to better understand the art of persuasion. Romm demonstrates that you don't have to be an expert to vastly improve your ability to communicate. He has pulled together the secrets of the greatest communicators in history to show how you can apply these tools to your writing, speaking, blogging - even your Tweeting.

En este nuevo libro, el autor superventas Marc Reklau te mostrará sus técnicas probadas para alcanzar la productividad extrema. Este libro sencillo, y de fácil lectura, te ayudará a lograr tus objetivos en menos tiempo y con menos estrés. La forma en la que gestionas tu tiempo determina el éxito o el fracaso más que cualquier otro aspecto de tu vida o tu carrera profesional.

On January 21, 2017, millions of protestors took part in the Women's March, and many of them created a "sea of pink" when they wore knitted pink "pussyhats" in record numbers. The pussyhat swiftly found its place on the cover of Time and The New Yorker, and it ultimately came to symbolize resistance culture. Creator of the Pussyhat Project, Krista Suh, took an idea and built a worldwide movement and symbol in just two months. But like so many women, Krista spent years letting her fears stop her from learning to live by her own rules.

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.

As writers, we all know what an incredible tool dictation software can be. It enables us to write faster and avoid the dangers of RSI and a sedentary lifestyle. But many of us give up on dictating when we find we can't get the accuracy we need. This book changes all of that. With almost two decades of using Dragon software under his belt, Scott will reveal how to supercharge your writing and achieve sky-high recognition accuracy from the moment you start using the software.

In Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow, Steve Almond shares the insights gleaned from three decades as a beloved teacher and mentor, and a considerably less-beloved literary rabble rouser. His tone is irreverent. His ideas are iconoclastic. And his approach is stubbornly, radically, empathic. The goal is to explode the well-meaning but misguided myths that hold us back from writing our deepest and most honest work, to awaken the joys of storytelling while also confronting how grueling the process can be.

This books talks about my journey as an artist and how you can re-create what I've done in the past to have a successful career like I did. I give many tips and tricks on how to find success as an Indie artist. If you follow this book, you will most definitely achieve success as an artist. This book is not only for aspiring music artists but for any type of creator.

Ein Buch für alle, die schon von Design-Thinking hörten, aber noch nicht genau wissen, was das sein soll, was es bewirkt und wieso es der Schlüssel zur Innovation ist. Design-Thinking – ein Begriff, der oft für Verwirrung sorgt. Ist es eine Methode, ein Prozess oder gar ein Allheilmittel? Dieses Buch räumt mit Missverständnissen auf und zeigt dir, dass Design-Thinking viel mehr ist: eine flexible und wirksame Herangehensweise, die weit über das bloße „Denken“ hinausgeht.

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 trailblazing global product innovator Leslie Grandy, Creative Velocity: Propelling Breakthrough Ideas in the Age of Generative AI provides everything listeners need to develop the mindset, skills, and confidence that allow creativity to flourish, enabling them to challenge conventional thinking to improve customer, business, and personal results and collaborate effectively with generative AI to cultivate and explore novel ideas.

The Art of Creative Expression: 37 Themes of Transformation is a living altar...an immersive, soul-stirring audiobook rooted in grief, remembrance, and the sacred return of unconscious ripples.

Un voyage introspectif à la guérison de son être authentique par le chant des textes sacrés de divers continents explicités et mis en musique par Ingrid Hernandis. Pour un voyage introspectif à la quête de son soi authentique par un voyage parmi les textes sacrés de par le monde à chanter en ouverture de son potentiel musical. Aucun don musical n'est nécessaire car il s'agit bien de l'ouverture de ce pouvoir créatif d'auto-expression et de guérison que vous propose Ingrid Hernandis dans cet ouvrage.

Most people think of creativity as something they either have or don’t. That’s Creativity Myth No. 1. One of the things this book will teach you is that there is no single path to creativity.

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.

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.