While everyone else is trying to dig the same hole in the same place, this book shows you how to dig a new hole somewhere different.Ĥ. In “Lateral Thinking,” author Edward de Bono shows us how to align our thinking in a way that actually helps us become more creative. On the other hand one needs to have it and to know how to use it for maneuverability and to get out of a blind alley.”-Edward de Bonoįor some people, the concept of increasing your creativity is sort of like hitting the lottery: There’s a fat chance it’ll happen today, but maybe next time.
One would never try to drive along in reverse gear the whole time. “Lateral thinking is like the reverse gear in a car. (Take another look at the above quote and notice how applicable it is when you replace the word “happiness” with the phrase “increasing your creativity.”)Įver experience that feeling where you totally lose track of time, you feel absolutely unstoppable and your excellent work just seems to effortlessly stream out of you? That’s called a “flow-state.” And in this book, you’ll learn how to bring it about within your own work. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come.” -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.
It is not something that money can buy or power command. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. “Happiness is not something that happens. Pressfield also talks about overcoming procrastination and the energy that comes from working on the things you deem to be your true calling. Creatives have to work through the fear of failure, being their own worst critics and a lack of self-confidence. Reading it almost feels like getting a solid kick in the rear from your very wise, very experienced, grandpa. “The War of Art” will teach you how to break through the blocks every creative runs into from time to time. Give us what you’ve got.”-Steven Pressfield “Creative work is … a gift to the world and every being in it. I’ve also listed my own key take-aways from some of these books, as well as my favorite quotes on creativity from each. And if you need help increasing your creativity, then these ten books will show you how to build that muscle up so you can maximize your own creative potential-both personally and professionally. In other words, he did it often enough to recognize that if he went off the beaten path halfway through a painting, he could take a different route and still end up with a piece of art.īottom line? Creativity is neither magical nor mysterious.Ĭreativity is like a muscle. Picasso cultivated his talent into mastery. Was he “born with it”? Maybe, but people are born with all sorts of talents they neglect to nurture and refine. How did he create so many million-dollar masterpieces? Was he talented? Hell yeah. But, almost every single time, he’d end up with something beautiful. Other times, he’d end up painting something totally different than what he initially envisioned.Ī few times, he’d start the whole damn thing over again. Sometimes, he’d decide to let an idea take his painting elsewhere. Then, he’d expand from there, allowing the brush to let him transfer whatever he was envisioning onto the canvas. He’d sit down and start at the corner of the canvas with one single stroke of the brush. The way Picasso actually painted was much more in-depth. You see, most people think Picasso just sat down in front of a canvas and effortlessly cranked out masterpiece after masterpiece all day long, but that’s not how things went down at all. Read or Listen: click below to play the podcast version, scroll down to read. But, as it turns out, I was dead wrong (kind of.) I thought creative people, like Pablo Picasso, for instance, were blessed with some sort of magical, innate talent that most of us just don’t have. And this is how I’d rationalize why people like Picasso were so much more creative than I was. Personally, I’d always thought “creativity” was sort of elusive. Increasing your creativity-or developing any sense of creativity in the first place-seems to be hardest when you need it most.
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