Shelley Carson

Your Creative Brain

Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Filled with research-based techniques for expanding creativity and increasing productivity This provocative book reveals why sitting in front of a light box can increase your creativity more than listening to a Bach concerto as example. The author Shelley H. Carson, a Harvard psychologist, explains that creativity isn't something only scientists, investors, artists, writers, and musicians enjoy, but rather all of us use our creative brains every day at home and at work and have the ability to increase our mental functioning and creativity by understanding the seven brainsets. * Explains the seven brainsets of the mind and their functions as related to creativity, productivity, and innovation, including Open, Scan, Think, Vision, Appraise, Streaming and Goal * Provides quizzes, exercises, and self-tests to activate each of these seven brainsets to unlock our maximum creativity This book is a Harvard Health Publication that offers helpful suggestions that can be applied in both your personal and professional life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 165mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780470547632
• ISBN-10: 0470547634
• Artikelnr.: 29741982

Autorenporträt

Shelley Carson, PhD, teaches, conducts research, and publishes on the topics of creativity, psychopathology, and resilience at Harvard University. Her work has been featured on the Discovery Channel, CNN, and NPR, and she has won multiple teaching awards for her popular course Creativity: Madmen, Geniuses, and Harvard Students. She also writes the Life as Art blog for Psychology Today and discusses current findings in creativity research on her Web site http: //ShelleyCarson.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Meet Your Creative Brain. Chapter One Wanted: Your
Creative Brain. Why activating your creativity is important to individual
and societal well-being. Chapter Two Your Mental Comfort Zone. Introduction
to the seven brainsets. Fun quizzes to determine which is your mental
comfort zone. Chapter Three Tour Your Creative Brain. Brief introduction to
the parts of brain that are important to the creative process. Chapter Four
Brainsets and the Creative Process. Description of the stages in both the
explicit (deliberate) and the implicit (spontaneous) creative process and
which brainsets facilitate each stage of the process. Part II: Training
Your Creative Brain. Chapter Five Opening the Mind: Accessing the Absorb
Brainset Access externally and internally-generated information with an
uncritical eye. Chapter Six Imagining the Possibilities: Accessing the
Envision. Use the power of mental imagery to construct creative ideas.
Chapter Seven Thinking Divergently: Accessing the Connect Brainset.
Associating novel information to produce a multitude of ideas. Chapter
Eight Shaping the Creative Idea: Accessing the Reason Brainset. Consciously
work through a creative "problem". Chapter Nine Recognizing Useful Ideas:
Accessing the Evaluation Brainset. Evaluate creative ideas for
appropriateness. Chapter Ten Using Emotion Creatively: Accessing the
Transform Brainset. Put your negative emotions to work for you. Part III:
Putting the CREATES Strategies to Work. Chapter Eleven Performing
Creatively: Accessing the Stream Brainset. Practice skill-appropriate
improvisation. Chapter Twelve Flexing Your Creative Brain. Exercises for
switching between brainsets to enhance cognitive flexibility. Chapter
Thirteen Applying the Brainsets to Real-World Creativity. Tips for using
the brainsets in all stages of the creative process. Appendices. One How to
Score the CREATES Brainsets Assessment. Two The Token Economy System.
Chapter Notes. References. Index.