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"Creative-thinking expert Michael Michalko offers a series of idea-inspiring resources and techniques. . . . CRACKING CREATIVITY is peppered with anecdotes and exercises to help push you to your creative limit." — How“Sometimes the craziest ideas are the most inspired. . . . "You don't have to score 1600 on the SATs or build your own computer to approach your craft with genius. . . .[this] book is filled with exercises that illustrate the benefits of looking at problems from different angles." — TheOrlando Sentinel"CRACKING CREATIVITY unveils the secrets of creative genius and brings life-changing creative techniques into everyone's reach. By comparing the thinking strategies of over 100 of history's most creative minds, the book shows readers how to approach problems with new vision and discover a world of innovative solutions to everyday challenges."—New Equipment Digest "CRACKING CREATIVITY delivers an arsenal of powerful creative thinking tools that can be used to tackle virtually any type of technical problem and create new ideas. The closest thing we have to a tactical instruction manual for thinking like a genius." —American Creativity Association
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In this trailblazing book, internationally renowned business creativity expert Michael Michalko shows how creative people think—and how to put their secrets to work for you. To create this book, Michalko researched and analyzed hundreds of history's greatest thinkers—from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso—and then brought their techniques into the modern home and workplace. The follow-up to the popular THINKERTOYS, which sold over 80,000 copies.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The paradox of "creativity experts",
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This review is from: Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius (Hardcover)
I'm glad people like Michalko are out there studying creativity and trying to organize their findings in books of this sort. But I am struck by a very odd thing: If these guys have figured out how creative people do their thing, why haven't they figured out how to become creative themselves? Instead, these "creativity experts" strike me as being like someone who would write a sex advice book without having much sexual experience himself. I would be more impressed by one of these guys if he had turned himself around from lesser to greater creativity through the use of the techniques he describes, as evidenced through patents for commerically successful inventions, or something like that. The whole point of offering self-help advice is that one can demonstrate that he knows what he is talking about.
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Finally found the book,
By Annie (Miami, Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius (Paperback)
I've been looking for years for the right book that would provide practical advice that is historically founded. This is it. Michael provides the techniques with the histories of the techniques as to how geniuses have profited from them throughout history. This is, without question, the best book on creative thinking that I have ever read. Bar none.
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The age of creativity and thinking,
By Jason Mark Alster M.Sc "Millenium man" (Wethersfield , CT) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius (Paperback)
Look, when I was growing up one of my math teachers gave a diagnosis to each student. She said "you are an A+ student, you are a C+ student and you are a B- student. You will be that way all your life". Well the thinking then is that we were were genetically patterened to think at certain levels and they could not be expected to change. I actually believed my teacher for many years after that and when I only received B grades I did not expect better. Then comes along reseachers like Michalko who show that being creative is not genetic but a learned skill in itself that everyone may apply to his work and life. "Cracking Creativity" was one of the books I read before I published my own books on learning strategies and being creative. I also use the techniques in the book to train children with learning disabilities like ADHD and dyslexia to empower them to compensate for their problems by actually thinking better. ThanksThe Author of BEING IN CONTROL- Natural Techniques For Increasing Your Potential And Creativity For Success In School. and Creative Painting For The Young Artist.
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