The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker: How To Make Connections Others Don't

Gerard Puccio, Director of the International Center for Studies in Creativity"Guess what? The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker isn’t a secret any more. An excellent idea and a great contribution to our field. It was such a pleasure to read.” Dr. Bravo!” Tim Hurson, author of Think Better. "Love the book. Nielsen and Thurber have spilled the beans. Terrific work

"A succinct, useful and demystifying map into the creative process." according to A Reader. Think you're not creative? Or that ideas and inspiration are magical gifts that some people have, and others do not? This book says we should think again: that creativity is actually a muscle we can develop, and that as with any other core strength, the ability to make new connections gets more powerful and easier to access with targeted exercise. So how did it work for me, a creative professional who sometimes wonders where inspiration will come from (and feels like other people have more of the "gift")? I was s. Nancy Goldstein said Required reading at my company!. As Sarah Thurber and Dorte Nielsen say in their incredible book “The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker,” creative thinking is a need-to-have skill. It is no longer optional. This practical (and beautifully designed) book gives everyone the framework and tools to make more connections that spur more ideas.The book begins by making the case that seeing new connections is at the core of creative thinking. They then explore the research and neuroscience that lays the foundation for the toolkit they pr. Christy E. Pedersen said I loved this book. I loved this book. While increasing experience - in any field or just life itself - can increase our intuition/efficiency, I think many of us inadvertently get a little lazy on the naturally creative thinking we had before all that experience. Creative thinking can solve so many problems and create so much progress and this book is a beautifully designed, concise case for how valuable it is. Best of all, the book is full of exercises to help readers re-develop that creative thinking muscle in our brains - great i

Supported by the latest neuroscience, this book gives you hands-on advice on how to enhance your own creativity. This is the opportunity to pass on the secret’ of highly creative people to a much wider audience. It’s a chance to give others the knowledge, techniques, and training they need to enhance their own innate creativity and lead the way to fun, fulfillment, invention, innovation, and change.It’s a unique book that combines a very hands on and practical approach with a solid scholarlyfoundation.This book gives 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. 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 a need for a book on creativity that complements the teaching of the creative process and tools and gives you a practical approach to how to enhance your innate ability to think creatively. This book as an opportunity to dispel the myth that creative talent is something possessed by a gifted minority