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| Creativity
in Context: Update to the Social Psychology of Creativity by
Teresa M. Amabile et al
Largely because they affect motivation, social factors can have a powerful impact on creativity. To understand creativity, two basic questions must be answered. How is creative performance different from ordinary performance? What conditions are most favorable to creative performance -- what personal abilities and characteristics, what social environments? |
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Karen D. Arnold. Lives of Promise: What Becomes of High School Valedictorians: A Fourteen-Year Study of Achievement and Life Choices
Angeles Arrien. Nine Muses: A Mythological Path to Creativity
[publisher:] "..illustrates how we can inspire ourselves and see clearly the muses that abound in our own lives. She follows the stories of the Muses from Olympus, Mount Helicon, and the springs of Hippocrene... explaining how to awaken and cultivate our gifts and talents... Angeles Arrien is an anthropologist, educator... consultant to corporations... her teachings bridge the disciplines of anthropology, psychology, and comparative religion.."Anna Held Audette The Blank Canvas : Inviting the Muse [reader:] "What a wonderful book - I go back to it again and again... it is a concise and witty source of inspiration. I wish I had read it sooner!"
Jordan E. Ayan Aha! : 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas
There is a life experience component that really fuels innovation and ideas in individuals." And if you can take a step back from the tools and techniques and understand what that fuel is, that may help you to understand how you can always be operating in a creative way. ... how do you live a life that's going to fuel your creative inspiration in the future. ... Jordan E. Ayan [from interview on Tom Peters site]Bob Baker Sell Your Art, Crafts and Photography Online - 149 Places to Sell Your Talents on the Internet (.pdf ebook)
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on Creating : Awakening and Cultivating
the Imaginative Mind by Frank X. Barron
This collection of more than three dozen essays seeks to provide a meaningful investigation into the creative process. Such diverse voices as Henry Miller, Federico Fellini, Rainer Maria Rilke, Isadora Duncan, Frank Zappa, and Mary Shelley offer their thoughts on what prompted them to a creative life, and how they managed to capture their inspirations and persist to produce works of art. ... Mary Shelley on "The Genesis of Frankenstein," Tony Kushner on the "myth of the individual" in making art, Maya Angelou describing her day, Ingmar Bergman on the set of Fanny and Alexander, Richard Feynman in the classroom, Karen Finley feigning madness etc. [amazon.com summary]] |
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David Bayles, Ted Orland. Art & Fear : Observations on the Perils (And Rewards) of Artmaking
author, Ted Orland: "This book is written by working artists, for working artists... a book about the way art gets made, the reasons it often does not get made, and about the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The authors... are both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. The observations we make are drawn from personal experience, and relate more to the needs of fellow artists than to the interests of viewers. Do not mistake Art & Fear for a pop psychology self-help book -- we are not interested in freeing your inner child! This is a book about what it feels like to sit down at your wheel or keyboard, easel or camera, trying to do the work you need to do. Simply put, you have a choice between giving your art your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot and thereby GUARANTEEING that it will not make you happy. What we have tried to do is illuminate the obstacles you face, and offer some artistic strategies for getting past them."Mary Todd Beam. Celebrate Your Creative Self: Over 25 Exercises to Unleash the Artist Within
"Readers are invited to playfully explore various aspects of visual art, such as light, color, texture and design through a series of imaginative art projects. Artists will experiment hands-on with dozens of techniques and mediums in new and unconventional ways including: * Capturing whites with crayon and wax resist * Glazing and floating colors * Portraying the patterns of nature with sedimentation and precipitation * Loosening up with gesso painting and printing with plastic * Constructing a new piece of art from old work * Experimenting with three-dimensional assemblage * Creating a street map In addition, artists are prompted to challenge their imaginations by building new painting surfaces, creating their own personal symbols and more. Further inspiration can be found in a gallery of work by more than 30 contributing artists. [Amazon.com review]
 Inspiring Creativity: An Anthology of Powerful Insights and Practical Ideas to Guide You to Successful Creating -Rick Benzel, editor Consists of 22 truly amazing articles by professional creativity coaches. These are people who are trained to work with artists and thinkers, coaches who understand the challenges that creative people face day in and day out. They know how difficult it can be to come up with new ideas, to produce truly great creative work. |
For
example, if you are lacking in good ideas, you can read articles about:
How to create new ideas in dozens of different ways; How to find a
“muse” – an inspiration of some kind -- who can guide
and motivate you to create;
How
to avoid procrastination and get away from the “flying
monkeys” – those little critters that, like gremlins, keep
you from accomplishing your creative goals... > Eric Maisel, PhD, in an issue of his coaching newsletter > more info on the book at The Creativity Coaching Association site |
Robert Alan Black. Broken Crayons: Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
"Are you creative? Do others call you creative? Do you wish you were more creative? If your answer to any of the above is yes, then [this book] will teach you how to become more creative through the analogy of broken crayons. It serves as a reminder through the entire book that to become more creative, you need to do things differently; do things out-of-the-ordinary; and break existing barriers or remove current limitations, real, implied or imaginary." [from author site: http://www.cre8ng.com/books.html]Benjamin S. Bloom et al. Developing Talent in Young People
Reviewer: Deborah Ruf, Ph.D.: Bloom's study helps those seriously interested in understanding the differences between different kinds of talent and it can be nurtured. The study describes how the nurturance of gifted athletes and musicians takes a different path than that of intellectually gifted young people. It points out that the families do not choose between the intellectual and athletic areas but follow the talents manifested by their children.
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Brings together original articles that draw on a range of disciplines -- from the history and sociology of science, psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence -- to ask how creative ideas arise, and whether creativity can be objectively defined and measured. Margaret Boden and her colleagues... demonstrate that creativity requires not only challenging new ideas but their acceptance by some relevant social group. Although some new ideas can arise as novel associations, others are generated by exploiting structural features of an existing conceptual space. [Amazon.com] |
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Tonya Bolden. 33 Things Every Girl Should Know : Stories, Songs, Poems and Smart Talk by 33 Extraordinary Women
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In her book The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron writes, "The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union... Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as the creator but seldom see 'creator' as the literal term for 'artist.' "I am suggesting," she continues, "you take the term creator quite literally. You are seeking to forge a creative alliance, artist to artist, with the Great Creator." from article Spirituality and creativity by Douglas Eby related book: The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal |
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Julia Cameron The Vein of Gold [audio] "step-by-step exploration into the deeper dimension of your creativity... dozens of autobiographical exercises.."
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Walking
in This World: The Practical Art of Creativity -
by Julia Cameron
It is one of the ironies of the creative life that while drama is a part of what we make, it has almost no place in how we make it. Even those famous artists who suffered famously dramatic lives were remarkably undramatic in their actual work habits. Hemingway wrote five hundred words a day, wife in and wife out. Composer Richard Rodgers wrote a composition every morning, nine to nine-thirty. ... This argues that we get a lot further creatively by staying put and doing something small and do-able daily in the life we already have. ... [excerpt from the book] |
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Lucia Capacchione. Living With Feeling: The Art of Emotional Expression
"If fear has you in its grip at the mere prospect of art making, then all I ask is that you stay with the process [in this book] and see what happens. Give it a try. You will not be judged or critiqued. The only critic you will have to contend with is the one inside your own head. Those are the old beliefs and attitudes that stop you from listening to your heart's desire and to your true self."Lucia Capacchione. Putting Your Talent to Work
Lucia Capacchione. Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams "..follows the same rules that inspire professional designers and demonstrates how anyone can use them in everyday living. Drawing on her experiences as a designer and corporate consultant, Capacchione applies the design principles she acquired from her own mentors: Charles Eames, Buckminster Fuller, Corita Kent, and Walt Disney. Readers learn how to apply her blueprint to their individual lives, from making a wish through "creative chaos" to realizing personal goals and dreams. With easy-to-follow and playful hands-on art activities and time-tested techniques..."
Lucia Capacchione, PhD. The Creative Journal for Teens: Making Friends With Yourself
[reader:] "This book is a great help in journaling for self-discovery. The exercises are easy but can lead to some really interesting insights. I really love how writing and drawing are mixed, and looking back at my drawings is really interesting. ... this is a fun way for a teen to develop her sense of identity and work through all the nasty issues teens face."Michelle Cassou. Life, Paint and Passion : Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression
Michelle Cassou. Point Zero: Creativity Without Limits
Maro Chermayeff, et al. Juilliard
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Kenneth W. Christian, PhD Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement
We can be particularly resistant to change when it threatens to alter what we believe about ourselves. In his 1948 book, The Theory of Self-Consistency, Prescott Lecky argues that people prefer retaining a consistent view of who they are to changing that view, even if the change would be positive. As we have seen, the idea of who you are resides at the center of your sense of reality. It is part of the glue that holds your reality together. You believe that if you know anything, you know yourself. And you feel you know the way you behave and what is possible for you. ... The problem is not, has never been, and never will be, who you are. The problem is always what you choose to do. Certain actions you have taken habitually have short-circuited your success. Change begins with noticing your ability to choose new actions and then acting. |
....Coaches Collaborative. Living an Extraordinary Life
"contains the combined wisdom of high-performing business and personal coaches from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Each coach was selected for his or her unique ability to share the "key secret ingredient strategies" used by their top-achieving professional and millionaire clients to obtain extraordinary levels of performance, joy, and control over their lives. " [amazon.com]Sean Covey. The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens
Based on his father's bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Sean Covey applies the same principles to teens, using a vivacious, entertaining style. To keep it fun, Covey writes, he "stuffed it full of cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world... along with a few other surprises." Did he ever! Flip open to any page and become instantly absorbed in real-life stories of teens who have overcome obstacles to succeed, and step-by-step guides to shifting paradigms, building equity in "relationship bank accounts," creating action plans, and much more. [Amazon.com review --Emilie Coulter]Tom Crockett The Artist Inside : A Spiritual Guide to Cultivating Your Creative Self "Getting inspired is one of the toughest parts of being an artist, whether we're a beginner or a seasoned professional. But as Tom Crockett shows us in this new book, finding ideas for our artwork is easier than we think. By simply exploring the images of our sleeping and waking dream states, we can discover a wealth of ideas and inspiration that are more authentic and powerful because they reveal our underlying spiritual self."
Mihaly Csikszentmihaly. Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success and Failure
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and Social Factors - by John S. Dacey, Kathleen H. Lennon "The
authors advance the biopsychosocial perspective as a model of the creative
process.... This new perspective promises to further our understanding
of the intricacies of the creative mind. In the process of studying this
book, readers may increase the probability of enhancing their own creativity."
"Taking
a giant step beyond traditional psychological and psychosocial models,
the authors have joined biological research with that from the fields of
cognitive psychology and social psychology. This highly integrated approach
provides a more comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted findings
of creativity research. The authors consider the reciprocal effects of
the many diverse elements of their model on the development of individual
creativity."
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by Susan Dunn, M.A., Clinical Psychology coach, speaker, writer and educator in Emotional Intelligence You'll feel at home in your own skin for the first time! Find out how to get down to the CORE you for more happiness in life. 10 lessons delivered to your email for self-paced learning. "The 'Strengths' course has been fabulous. I am finally seeing that what I thought were my weaknesses actually are the radiant gems of my truth. This is so freeing! Thank you Susan!" -- Nancy Mehegan
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Paul Edwards, Sarah Edwards The Practical Dreamer's Handbook : Finding the Time, Money, and Energy to Live the Life You Want to Live"Two years ago I had a dream. It took tremendous determination, perseverance and commitment to actualize this dream. I often became frustrated, confused and discouraged, but I had a resource that helped me to stay focused and clear so I could keep going. I had a support group of friends and advisors on the Internet from all across the country who I had known throughout my life. They became my Dream Team. With their help now I'm living my dream." Sarah Edwards
Robert Epstein, PhD. The Big Book of Creativity Games: Quick, Fun Activities for Jumpstarting Innovation
[reader:] "Thank you, Robert Epstein, for demythologizing creativity. As a writing teacher I found this book very helpful in several ways. The games are fun and each one makes a strong point. My students respond to the core competencies with excitement and gratitude and most can't wait to develop these concrete skills. I've found nothing better for tackling the problem of "writer's block." I have used this book with students in classroom and workshop situations and recommend it to managers who want to jump start their employees' creativity.Anne S. Fishkin, Bonnie Cramond, and Paula Olszewski-Kubilius. Investigating Creativity in Youth
reader: This book provides an excellent review of the state of the art in the field of creativity. Multiple perspectives from theory as well as applied research give a well rounded view of the creative process, person and press. What I think is most unique and have enjoyed most is the inclusion of methodological studies and information pointing to needed research in the field of creativity. Most books on creativity I have read have dealt mainly with theory and not focused on research itself or the assessment of creativity. I consider this the best comprehensive book on creativity currently available and recommend it to students striving to become acquainted with the field of creativity research as well as to professionals already in the field as a reference or even text for a course in creativity research.Richard Florida. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
Mark Freeman. Finding the Muse : A Sociopsychological Inquiry into the Conditions of Artistic Creativity
".. explores the lives of a group of aspiring fine artists from the mid-1960s, when they completed art school, to the mid-1980s, focusing especially on problems of artistic creativity as they relate to such issues as the mystique of the artist, the challenge of establishing community among artists, the place of the art market in the construction of artistic identity, and the limits and possibilities of modern and postmodern art itself. By identifying the salient problems of contemporary artistic activity, the author seeks both to reconstruct more optimal conditions of creativity and to provide direction for how these conditions might be brought about. [Amazon.com summary]Marc Gafni. Soul Prints : Your Path to Fulfillment
Michael J. Gelb. Discover Your Genius: How to Think like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds
The mind has unlimited potential. Geniuses are no different from the rest of us-they simply use their potential more fully or effectively. This is not a new idea but Gelb's elaboration of it, complete with analyses of the way ten well-known exemplars have developed their own mind power, makes the idea real and riveting. Each of the ten exemplars discussed in Discover Your Genius represents a different genius characteristic, such as love of wisdom, imagination, balance, optimism, emotional intelligence, and courage. Outstanding figures who illustrate these traits include Copernicus, Darwin, Plato, Queen Elizabeth I, Gandhi, and others, all of whom are briefly profiled in a way that highlights the key principle at work in each genius's life. The book then teaches readers how to develop in themselves these characteristics, using self-assessment tests and specific exercises designed to cultivate the traits highlighted, along with the passion, focus, and strategy that Gelb considers critical to genius power. [Science of Mind magazine review]Brewster Ghiselin. The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention of Art
".. brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists, and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them. Contributors include Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amy Lowell, Rudyard Kipling, Max Ernst, Katherine Anne Porter, Henry Miller, Carl Gustav Jung, Mary Wigman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Henri Poincar and many others."
 Every
human being is an artist. As adults we can recreate the boundless joy
of unself-conscious art by setting aside intellectual critique and
self-doubt and reconnect with 'the Source' - the spiritual center
others may call instinct or soul.Aviva Gold - from her book |
To
do our job as artists well, we need to be outspoken, meticulously
honest and authentically emotional, which means that we and our art may
express rage, grief, destruction, depression, death and sexuality.
We may need to paint African Mask faces in midnight black and blood red. Our art may show up as flamboyant, aggressive, morbid, corny, disgusting, primal, spiritual, provocative and totally outrageous. from essay The Creative Soul Lives in the Shadow excerpted from book The Soul of Creativity : |
Dorothy Randall Gray, Luisah Teish. Soul Between the Lines : Freeing Your Creative Spirit Through Writing
Suzanne Harper, Andrea Cascardi. Hands On! 33 More Things Every Girl Should Know : Skills for Living Your Life from 33 Extraordinary Women
Karlyn Holman. Searching for the Artist Within
Christopher Howard. Three Steps to Wealth and Power
Christopher Howard is one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of wealth and leadership. As an entrepreneur and Performance Consultant he has personally led, managed, launched and turned around numerous organizations and businesses. Today he is CEO of The Christopher Howard Companies, influencing hundreds of thousands of people worldwide through his television and radio appearances and public seminars... [amazon.com]
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Don't Waste Your Talent : The 8 Critical Steps to Discovering What You Do Best Each of us is born with talents to be remarkable at something. The secret is identifying those talents and then using them. So, what makes a person successful? Hutcheson and McDonald have posed this question to thousands of people throughout their careers. Everyone's story is different. But one thing is the same: successful people do what they do best every day. They are guided by a clear personal vision - an accurate and precise picture of the work that expresses them best. For the authors, success means satisfaction, productivity, self-expression, connectedness and meaning. |
Nancy Illing. Sparks Ignite Imagination
"With all the multimedia entertainment available today we spend little time thinking and daydreaming. Without practice, the natural creativity of childhood will wither. This book is an effort to keep that creativity alive and provide practice in the thinking skills that inspire innovation." [from author site creategenius.com]Mary-Elaine Jacobsen The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius "..psychologist Mary-Elaine Jacobsen's [book] draws on a wide range of groundbreaking research and her own clinical experience to show America's twenty million gifted adults who possess exceptional abilities how to identify and unlock their extraordinary potential."
Cheryl Jarvis. The Marriage Sabbatical: The Journey that Brings You Home
Vera John-Steiner Creative Collaboration "... explores the dynamics of emotional and intellectual partnerships... while the Western belief in individualism romanticizes this perception of the solitary creative process, the reality is that scientific and artistic forms emerge from the joint thinking, passionate conversations, emotional connections and shared struggles common in meaningful relationships."
Frances A. Karnes and Suzanne M. Bean. Adventures and Challenges : Real Life Stories by Girls and Young Women
"Stories of girls and young women who have pursued their quests for adventure and exemplified positive risk taking in both the mental and physical domains."Frances Karnes, Ph.D. Girls and Young Women Entrepreneurs : True Stories About Starting and Running a Business Plus How You Can Do It Yourself
Frances Karnes and Suzanne Bean. Girls and Young Women Leading the Way: 20 True Stories About Leadership
Janice Kelley. Driving with the Top Down: Telling the Stories of Your Life to Awaken Your Creative Spirit
Six categories lead the reader to discover their own stories and revitalize a neglected creative spirit: Imagine That, Memories, Personal Qualities, Life Challenges, Playtime, and Relationships. The book can also be used to spark conversations with children, with the elderly, at social events and as ice breakers in discussion groups. [summary from creativityatwork.com newsletter]
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The Captive Muse: On Creativity and Its Inhibition - by Susan Kolodny, D.M.H. Author Susan Kolodny focuses her discussion of creativity and its inhi-bitions by posing three questions: Why is creative work so difficult? What promotes or inhibits the process, both from within and from without? Finally, what makes creative activity possible at all? In
proposing answers to these questions, the author draws on her
experience as a published poet, her years of practice as a
psychoanalytic psychotherapist working with creative patients, and
interviews with artists and writers who shared the texture and
trajectory of their inner journeys through both fertile and fallow
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