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"In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman--who was relegated to special education as a child--sets out to show that the way we interpret traditional metrics of intelligence is misguided. Kaufman explores the latest research in genetics and neuroscience, as well as evolutionary, developmental, social, positive, and cognitive psychology, to challenge the conventional wisdom about the childhood predictors of adult success. He reveals that...
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"A pathbreaking new investigation into the mysteries of human creativity"--
Creativity defines the human experience. It sparks achievement and innovation in art, science, technology, business, sports, and virtually every activity. It has fueled human progress on a global level, but it equally is the source of profound personal satisfaction for individual creators. And yet the origins of creative inspiration and the methods by which great creators...
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From the moment we enter school as children, we are made to feel as if our brains are fixed entities, capable of learning certain things and not others, influenced exclusively by genetics. This notion follows us into adulthood, where we tend to simply accept these established beliefs about our skillsets (i.e. that we don't have "a math brain" or that we aren't "the creative type"). These damaging--and as new science has revealed, false--assumptions...
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Now in Paperback-the New York Times bestseller - and follow up to the revolutionary bestsellers Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics -with a new author Q&A. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner take us inside their thought process and teach us all how to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally. In Think Like A Freak, they offer a blueprint for...
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Winning Strategies of Highly Successful Women
McMeekin's second "12 secrets" book on creativity and success. From the popular creative coach Gail McMeekin, founder of Creative Success LLC with worldwide clients and author of the bestselling The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, comes a book with hundreds of examples of how creative women entrepreneurs and business leaders have used proven strategies to succeed.
Take positive risks and develop your...
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Offering insights from the spheres of anthropology, psychology, education, design, and business, Creative Intelligence by Bruce Nussbaum, a leading thinker, commentator, and curator on the subjects of design, creativity, and innovation, is first book to identify and explore creative intelligence as a new form of cultural literacy and as a powerful method for problem-solving, driving innovation, and sparking start-up capitalism. Nussbaum investigates...
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In the following pages I have attempted to summarize our knowledge regarding individual differences, more specifically those aspects of it which bear on the limits and range of human capacities, and to draw such inferences from the data available as the facts seem to warrant.
Both the facts and the generalization may afford the reader some surprise, the former because many of the data collected will be treated in an unfamiliar way, the latter because...
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Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance....
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The book presents a contrasting study of the views of ancient Indian, Chinese, Greek, Middle Eastern, and Russian philosophers on creativity. It also discusses the subject of creativity as viewed by Freud, Jung, Adler, the Gestalt school, and other prominent Western psychologists. A special place is provided for an overview of the history of Soviet psychology, and of the revival of psychology in Azerbaijan after the fall of the Soviet Union. The author...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Tim Harford's Messy by Instaread Preview: Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford is a researched consideration of the virtues of unorganized, diversified, and otherwise untidy systems in different aspects of life. One of the benefits of messy situations and distracting environments is that they fuel creative work. Unexpected obstacles arising from messy situations can force creative people...
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Holographic Mind: Thinking the Future explains how innovative thinkers create original ideas. Based on Eileen E. Cooper's doctoral research, it compares the hologram to non-verbal creative thinking skills. It produces a model that educates futurists to envision unorthodox realities that solve problems by capturing hints of future realities. In sum, Holographic Mind: -validates both imagery and muse as abstract forms of cognition -demystifies how the...
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One of the country's leading literary scholars explores the fascinating question of why some people's creative talents flourish with age while others' fade.
America grows older yet stays focused on its young. Whatever hill we try to climb, we're "over" it by fifty and should that hill involve entertainment or athletics we're finished long before. And if younger is better, it doesn't appear that youngest is best: we want our teachers, doctors, generals,...
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Are you ready to step up and soar into your highest and best? Here is the key to fully accessing and activating your courage, creativity and curiosity as you expand your capacity for love and joy in all aspects of your life.
Now that you have healed old emotional wounds with the Nurturing Your Inner Child program, you're ready to unleash those powerful and beautiful aspects of the child that you were born with, to take your self-help motivation to...
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Are you ready to step up and soar into your highest and best? Here is the key to fully accessing and activating your courage, creativity and curiosity as you expand your capacity for love and joy in all aspects of your life.Now that you have healed old emotional wounds with the Nurturing Your Inner Child program, you're ready to unleash those powerful and beautiful aspects of the child that you were born with, to take your self help motivation to...
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The idea of imaginary friends (creative companions) is pretty standard in the realm of child psychology. However, we never really see anything substantial about the notion of these companions in adolescents and adults, let alone the purpose or effects of those companions on those individuals. Adolescents and adults tend to face more negative stigmas than that of children, yet also use their companions in a way that is more complex yet similarly to...
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"The former superintendent at West Point and a psychologist explain why all successful leaders rely on a foundation of strong character. Among the most successful leaders throughout history-from Abe Lincoln to Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi to Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, Jr. to Nelson Mandela-some were brilliant mathematicians and economists, others were creative visionaries, still others were masterful at strategic planning. Their mastery of...
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We often think the key to success and satisfaction is to get more: more money, time and possessions; bigger budgets, job titles and teams; and additional resources for our professional and personal goals. It turns out we're wrong. Using captivating stories to illustrate research in psychology and management, Rice University professor Scott Sonenshein examines why some people and organizations succeed with so little while others fail with so much....
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Professionals in modern psychology, behavioral medicine, and psychoneuroimmunology are exploring ways in which we can "mentally" influence our own bodies through hypnosis, imagery, visualization, attention, intention, and other forms of self-regulation--for fostering physical and psychological health and well-being.
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