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Wired to Create : Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind by Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD, Carolyn Gregoire is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Wired to Create : Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind about?
Discover the ten things highly creative people do differently. Is it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity? Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman’s groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire’s popular article in the Huffington Post, Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the “messy minds” of highly creative people. Revealing the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, along with engaging examples of artists and innovators throughout history, the book shines a light on the practices and habits of mind that promote creative thinking. Kaufman and Gregoire untangle a series of paradoxes— like mindfulness and daydreaming, seriousness and play, openness and sensitivity, and solitude and collaboration – to show that it is by embracing our own contradictions that we are able to tap into our deepest creativity. Each chapter explores one of the ten attributes and habits of highly creative people: Imaginative Play * Passion * Daydreaming * Solitude * Intuition * Openness to Experience * Mindfulness * Sensitivity * Turning Adversity into Advantage * Thinking Differently With insights from the work and lives of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Proust, D
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It is typically read by readers building habits, skills, productivity or wellbeing.
Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.
- Author
- Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD, Carolyn Gregoire
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780399174100
- Category
- self-help
- Subjects
- Psychology, Fiction, Self Help
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (392 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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