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Audiobook narrated by the author. Play can unlock your creativity and lead to innovation and success—creative director Piera Gelardi shows you how. The demands of adulthood often cause us to view play as something child-like, silly, and ultimately separate from our real lives. In treating it...

More and more makers, designers, writers, and artists are in demand as we enter the Age of Creatives. By understanding the new strategies and mindset required to succeed, you can manage other creatives successfully. For creators, getting that promotion to management is exciting but can also be...

Do you sit there staring into the void, wondering what to do next, hoping you will be somehow be saved by an ingenious idea that hits you like a lightning bolt coming down from the sky? You can be your own lightning bolt! You can save yourself! All you need are a few tips and tricks to get your creative juices flowing so you will never be at a loss for inspiration again.

WALL STREET JOURNAL bestseller! This brief, easy-to-read and inspiring book has become a guide for thousands of people—giving them the tools they need to find their next move, trust themselves, and take action. Ideal for: anyone who may be facing new opportunities or the unknown, including...

An inventor, adventurer, entrepreneur, collector, and entertainer, and son of legendary scientist-astronaut Owen Garriott, Richard Garriott de Cayeux has been behind some of the most exciting undertakings of our time. A legendary pioneer of the online gaming industry—and a member of every...

This book, The Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Novel for Fiction Writers and Novelist is a one-of-a-kind book. It is different from anything you would have listened to because it reverses the usual order of things. It does not teach you the same old tips and tricks. Instead the book divides the process of novel writing into six easy steps. Each step becomes a chapter that gives you complete insight and knowledge. It grabs you by the hand and takes you forward.

Reframe your story—and reclaim your life—through writing and storytelling in this “invaluable guide” (Danielle Ofri, MD, PHD, author of What Doctors Feel). A Harvard-trained doctor draws on narrative therapy and her own multiple sclerosis diagnosis to offer chronic illness patients a way...

In a career that has spanned four decades, choreographer Twyla Tharp has collaborated with great musicians, designers, thousands of dancers, and almost a hundred companies. She's experienced the thrill of shared achievement and has seen what happens when group efforts fizzle. Her professional life has been - and continues to be - one collaboration after another. In this practical sequel to her national best seller The Creative Habit, Tharp explains why collaboration is important to her - and can be for you.

Neurological research definitively and repeatedly concludes that there is a bottleneck in our cognitive function - when we do more than one thing at a time, we become less efficient and more error-prone. Our systems get overloaded and we crash. In fact, we are actually wired to monotask - to give dedicated focus to one task at a time.

Iyengar provides essential tools to spark creative thinking and help us make our most meaningful choices. She draws from recent advances in neuro- and cognitive sciences to give listeners a set of practical steps for coming up with powerful new ideas. Think Bigger offers an innovative evidence-backed method for generating big ideas that Iyengar and her team of researchers developed and refined over the last decade.

A unique guide to taking control of your imagination, confronting your fears and finding your true purpose. When we lose touch with our imaginations, we can become paralysed by fear, doubt and anxiety. But if we take back control of the imagination, our creativity becomes an amazingly powerful tool for identifying, confronting and controlling our fears. Artist and creative life coach Lou Hamilton guides you through a series of insights and simple creative exercises which gradually build your creative confidence while encouraging you to express your thoughts and ideas, giving you deeper understanding of your fears and your dreams.

What if embracing your differences could unlock your true potential? For years, I believed I was "too much," too intense, too different, too unpredictable. Diagnosed with autism and ADHD when I turned forty, I spent decades masking who I truly was, trying to fit into a world not designed for minds like mine. When I finally embraced my neurodivergence, everything changed. I didn’t just survive, I thrived. Turning my perceived limitations into my greatest strengths. NeuroEdge exists to help you do the same.

Part craft guide, part writing coach and part cheerleader, this audiobook offers useful advice on a slew of common writing and publishing ailments, such as how to end procrastination, how to build a social media platform that reflects your personality, how to get your imagination to overflow with new ideas, how to listen to your intuition when receiving a critique on your work, how to overcome impostor syndrome, what to do when you're stuck in the query trenches, and so much more.

Super Powers. You want them. You feel that life would be better with them. You wish you could have been born with them. The good news is you do have super powers!According to world-renowned intuitive guide and spiritual teacher Sonia Choquette, you are blessed with three incredible super powers...

Seven powerful brain hacks to access high energy thinking in a low energy thinking world, and find greater focus, creativity, productivity and passion - from Harvard and MIT scientist Jeffery Karp. Understanding that switching off or hiding away from the realities of the modern world is not practical, innovative Harvard and MIT scientist Jeffery Karp has found another even more powerful way to access high energy thinking with the help of his seven brain hijacks, or Library of Ignition Tools (LIT), to fire up your brain, focus and achieve your best work.

"Teaching by example, Natalie Goldberg has written a brave and turbulent memoir that is by turns luminous and gritty. A riveting read."—Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way "Bravo to Natalie. She shows us how to open the heart, and face into betrayal with courage instead of running from...

Prosperity is not something you attain; it's something you tune in to. Few people know that the very words they use either attract or repel prosperity (law of attraction). This book is a compilation of modern and ancient techniques on using the power of the spoken word to attract prosperity and abundance in one's life!

This new edition of Microcosm's popular DIY guide to zine making is updated to address zine making in today's digital- and social-media-obsessed world. Covering all the bases for beginners, Make a Zine hits on more advanced topics like Creative Commons licenses, legality, and sustainability. Make a Zine also takes a look at the burgeoning indie comix scene with a solid and comprehensive chapter by punk illustrator Fly.

If you want to be a successful leader in today’s business world, you need to think like an activist. If you want to be a successful leader in today’s business world, you need to think like an activist. This urgent and essential book shows how to do just that. The Activist Leader argues that...

Reveals sacred spiritual tools to connect with the love, passion, and creative powers of the Great Mother for spiritual transformation Explores the three faces of the Great Mother’s love and wisdom in our lives and how to build our magician’s wand, which enables us to be masters of our...