Creative Thinker's Exercise Book - Softcover

Nielsen, Dorte; Granholm, Katrine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9063694385 ISBN 13: 9789063694388

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

By enhancing your ability to identify connections, you can enhance your creativity. This exercise book strengthens your ability to recognise connections. The exercises are based on the theory of the book The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker, as well as observations in neuroscience, and seventy years of creativity studies.

This exercise book is based on a dynamic balance of theory, technique, and exercises, it's a practical hands-on workbook. It’s the perfect outlet to get your hands dirty and dive into exercises that strengthen one’s ability to see and make connections.

This book is for those seeking to enhance their creativity. It can be used to:
- Develop one’s creative capacity
- Train underlying mechanisms in creative thinking
- Enrich educational purposes
- Increase idea production

Creative Thinker’s Exercise Book is for everyone that’s eager to indulge in exercises to enhance their innate creativity by identifying connections.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Highly creative people are good at seeing connections. By enhancing your ability to see connections, you can enhance your creativity.

Based on this observation, a solid theory and the latest neuroscience, this exercise book is for people who want to become better creative thinkers. It’s a creative workbook jam-packed with activities, fun challenges, and exercises designed to enhance your creativity. The idea is simple. When you train your ability to see and make connections, you strengthen the underlying mechanism that helps you to think creatively.

You can train your brain. Just like you can train your muscles. No matter at what level you are when you start, you can become a better creative thinker. It’s all down to practice. After the training you will find it easier to come up with fresh ideas, novel concepts, breakthrough thinking, and innovative solutions when faced with challenges that call for new thinking, whether that be in business or in life.

This book gives you:
40 exercises to enhance your creativity
Insights into connection making
Hands-on training in generating original ideas
Creative cross training to boost your brain
Hours of fun

About the Author

Dorte is a creativity expert, author, keynote speaker and the founder of FourSight
Denmark. Dorte is also the fouder of ”Creative Communication” an award winning BA education for Art Directors and conceptual thinkers at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, where she teaches, conducts research and consults in the area of creativity and creative thinking. Dorte is the author of numerous books and articles on creative thinking.

2010, Dorte has spearheaded the launch of FourSight in Denmark. For most of the 90’s she worked as an Art Director in London. Her advertising work there won her recognition at the Cannes International Advertising Festival, D&AD, the British Television Awards, Epica, London International Advetising Awards, Campaign Poster Awards among others.
Born in Denmark, Dorte Nielsen studied at The Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark and later at The School of Communication Arts in London. Dorte also holds a Master of Science degree in Creativity and Change Leadership from the International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo, New York, where she and Sarah were awarded the Firestien Family Creative Achievement Award for their graduate work.
Katrine Granholm is an Art Director and Digital Concept Developer. She also work as a lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Danish School of Media and Journalism where she teaches concept development, social media, mobile and Art Direction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 9063694385
• ISBN 13: 9789063694388
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112