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Bestselling author Robert J. Ringer has shattered the mold of tradition-bound ideas and designed a winning new philosophy to be used every day. Inside this get-tough-with-yourself guide, you'll find the simple but vital habits that can change your outlook and lead to big results--personally, professionally, and financially. Before you know it, you'll be turning negatives into positives--and turning your life around--without thinking twice!

As a single mom living on food stamps, Sarah completely changed her life of poverty to enable her to live her dream in just 18 months. Sarah discovered the tools to change her life after her husband abandoned her and their three small children in 2008. Her story has impacted hundreds of thousands worldwide through her simple eight-step plan for achieving success known as the #HBRMethod.

In The Book of Beautiful Questions, Berger shares illuminating stories and compelling research on the power of inquiry. Drawn from the insights and expertise of psychologists, innovators, effective leaders and some of the world's foremost creative thinkers, he presents the essential questions readers need to make the best choices when it truly counts, with a particular focus in four key areas: decision-making, creativity, leadership and relationships.

All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, The Creative Habit provides you with 32 practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable 35-year career.

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.

Weaving together philosophy, social science and neuroscience research, personal anecdotes and dialogues, The Philosophy of Childing takes a radically different approach to the traditional boundaries between childhood and adulthood to reveal how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve what the Greeks arete - all-around excellence - when we look to children and youth as a lodestar for our development.

Tom Kelley, author of The Art of Innovation and the general manager of IDEO, the world-famous design firm, illuminates the strategies IDEO used to beat the devil's advocate and drive creativity throughout the organization.

What is it that separates the doers, leaders, and success stories among us from the dreamers, also-rans, and wannabes? To best-selling author James P. Owen, it's all about having The Try - the quality of giving 110 percent to the task or challenge at hand. In The Try - a dozen true stories of ordinary people who've done extraordinary things across varied fields of endeavor—Owen reveals The Try as a character trait that can be forged in several ways.

Scrittori e scrittrici non si nasce, si diventa, soprattutto attraverso la capacità di sospendere il giudizio su quell'edificio in costruzione, coi pavimenti ricoperti da calcinacci, che è il romanzo a cui stiamo lavorando. In questo «manuale di scrittura che parla poco di scrittura», Francesco Trento ci insegna a liberarci dalla mistica del talento, invitandoci ad allenare quindici qualità che sono state spesso determinanti nel costruire le carriere di scrittori e scrittrici di successo.

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, Julia Cameron has taught thousands of artists and aspiring artists how to unblock wellsprings of creativity. And time and again she has noticed an interesting thing: Often when her students uncover their creative selves they also undergo a surprising physical transformation - invigorated by their work, they slim down. In The Writing Diet, Cameron illuminates the relationship between creativity and eating to reveal a crucial equation: Creativity can block overeating.

A passionate and inspiring guide to creating a life built around the creative process. This groundbreaking new work from the best-selling author of The Artist's Way, guides listeners in creating a vision for their lives in which art and life are inextricably linked. According to Julia Cameron, when we allow our creative spirit to serve as our compass, we discover that the art we have always longed to create is suddenly within our grasp. In The Creative Life, Cameron shows listeners how to use their creative hearts and minds to cultivate lives that nourish and sustain their art.

The Theta Advantage: History's greatest creators—Einstein, Tesla, Edison—attributed their breakthroughs to moments between sleep and waking. That's theta (4-8 Hz): the brain frequency where imagination flows freely, intuition sharpens, and your subconscious solves problems your conscious mind can't touch.

When Kent Nerburn received a letter from Jennifer, a young woman questioning her calling to spend her life in the arts, the writer and artist was struck by how closely her questions mirrored the doubts and yearnings of his own youth. Nerburn resolved that he would write his own letter: a letter of welcome and encouragement to all young artists setting out on the same strange and magical journey, sharing the wisdom of a life spent working in the arts.

What does it take to have a long writing life? Drawing on her years of writing, teaching, and practicing Zen, Natalie Goldberg shares the experiences that have opened her to new ways of being alive - experiences that point the way forward in our lives and our writing. The "great spring" of this book title refers to the great rush of energy that arrives when you think no life will ever come again - the early yellow flowering forsythia, for example.

In passato la persona creativa è sempre stata costretta a ribellarsi contro la società. Oggi la situazione sta cambiando, e questo perché l'intero contesto in cui viviamo sollecita nuove sfide che richiedono "risposte creative" funzionali al mondo liquido sorto intorno a noi. Per non lasciarsi travolgere dagli eventi, occorre spostarsi dall'abitudine a rispettare le certezze culturali e della tradizione, la propensione a dipendere dagli insegnamenti e dai comportamenti convenzionali, per avvicinare e coltivare le proprie qualità essenziali ed esistenziali.

"Teresa, ¿tú por qué siempre lo quieres saber todo?" Esta pregunta me acompaña desde niña y en el ánimo de responderla decidí investigar la curiosidad, la primera fortaleza humana. Después de años de estudio, ahora animo a otros a despertarla. Así nace este audiolibro que habla tanto de ti como de mí. Habla de las ganas de saber y la inagotable necesidad de aprender. De cómo la curiosidad inspira a la creatividad. De esa energía que nos empuja a observar, buscar, averiguar, investigar, indagar, a conectar con los demás.

Most of the conventional productivity advice you'll find in the soft business section simply does not work for creative people. Surprisingly, to date there has not been a single book or audiobook that addresses the unique organisational challenges that artists face. This audiobook sets out to change that, and it addresses the myth that truly creative people are messy and that they need mess in order to create. Sheila Chandra applies her professional insights as a creative and organizing expert to the lives of other busy creative people in all disciplines.

Nous sommes tous des artistes du quotidien, peu importe ce que nous choisissons de créer, que ce soit une grande œuvre, un petit mot écrit à la main pour faire sourire quelqu'un, un mouvement qui inspire les autres à passer positivement à l'action, une danse improvisée dans le salon. Quand nous posons ces actes créatifs de façon consciente, il y a quelque chose qui se transforme en nous. La vie devient riche et significative lorsque nous injectons plus de nous dans notre quotidien.

« L’essentiel, à partir du moment où vous entrez dans ce livre, c’est ce que vous déciderez de faire de votre désir d’écrire, qu’il vous conduise à réaliser une œuvre littéraire, à explorer votre existence, ou encore à mieux vous connaître et ainsi à mieux vivre. » Que faire de notre désir d’écrire quand des peurs et des freins nous nous musèlent ? Selon Eudes Séméria, psychothérapeute existentiel, il faut écrire pour se connaître et de se connaître pour écrire. Accéder à sa créativité passera alors par un travail d’analyse mais aussi par une mise à l’épreuve guidée permettant d'atteindre sa maturité.

Juliette Siozac a créé un concept novateur et original : "Mon moment magique", des ateliers bien-être pour les enfants. Relaxation, respiration, yoga, cercle de parole, jeux... L'ambition est de les aider à gérer leurs émotions, à évacuer les tensions, à développer leur confiance en eux, et à prendre soin d'eux pour grandir en conscience. Dans ce livre, Juliette Siozac s'adresse directement aux enfants, et leur offre des ressources bien-être, à vivre en toute autonomie.