Your creative brain: seven steps to maximize imagination, productivity, and innovation in your life

This title is 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. It 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. It provides quizzes, exercises, and self-tests to activate each of theseseven 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 INDICE: "Preface. Acknowledgments. Part 1: Meet Your Creative Brain. 1 Wanted: Your Creative Brain. Why activating your creativity is important to individual and societal well-being. 2 Your Mental Comfort Zone. Introduction to theseven brainsets. Fun quizzes to determine which brainset is your mental comfort zone. 3 Tour Your Creative Brain. Brief introduction to the parts of brain that are important to the creative process. 4 Brainsets and the Creative Process. Description of the stages that comprise both the deliberate and the spontaneous creative process. Part 2: Training Your Creative Brain. 5 Opening the Mind: Accessing the Absorb Brainset. Access externally and internally generated information with an uncritical eye. 6 Imagining the Possibilities: Accessing the Envision Brainset. Use the power of mental imagery to construct creative ideas. 7 Thinking Divergently: Accessing the Connect Brainset. Associate novel information to produce a multitude of ideas. 8 Shaping the Creative Idea: Accessing the Reason Brainset. Consciously work through a creative ""problem"". 9 Recognizing Useful Ideas: Accessing the Evaluate Brainset. Evaluate creative ideas for appropriateness. 10 Using Emotion Creatively: Accessing the Transform Brainset. Put your negative emotions to work for you. 11 Performing Creatively: Accessing the Stream Brainset. Practice skill-appropriate improvisation. Part 3: Putting the CREATES Strategies to Work. 12 Flexing Your Creative Brain. Exercises for switching between brainsets to enhance cognitive flexibility. 13 Applying the Brainsets to Real-World Creativity. Tips for using the brainsets in all stages of the creative process. Appendixes. 1 How to Score the CREATES Brainsets Assessment. 2 The Token Economy System. 3 The Daily Activities Calendar. Notes. References. About the Author. About Harvard Medical School. Index."

• ISBN: 978-0-470-54763-2
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 13/10/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés