The Creative Thinking Plan

With practical exercises, insights and inspiring examples, Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas clearly demonstrate how to break away from old habits, free up your mind and foster a productive and innovative mind-set to liberate your creativity.

We need to be smart, creative and flexible according to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. As those circumstances shift, so we need to respond in different ways. A creative, productive and innovative mind-set is vital to achieving harmony, balance and success in our personal and professional lives. In this comprehensive, clear and structured plan Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas show us how we can develop the skills needed to respond to the demands of the modern world in a creative, innovative and imaginative way.

-          Develop positive habits of mind

-          Learn to see the bigger picture

-          Access and develop you own inspiration

-          Discover how to think creatively and productively even under pressure

-          Break bad habits that are holding you back

-          Recognise contexts that support creative thought and learn to exploit them

-          Make innovative, productive and creative thought a way of life

"This creativity master class is a treat for any of us who want to open our minds." Octavius Black, The Mind Gym

"A compelling guide to developing creative habits of mind. The book draws on a rich variety of thinking about Creativity and shows how we can apply it to the benefit both of our work and our personal lives."             David Puttnam

‘...Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas have a well-established track record as experts in learning and have applied this understanding to creativity... The concise and clear text provides a practical and common-sense view of creativity... This book tantalizes us with the realisation that learning and creativity are close, and possibly inseparable, companions...’ Times Educational Supplement

"well presented, readable and takes us behond conventional thinking in order to achieve more in our personal and professional lives."- Professional Manager

"The book gives you easy-to-follow guidelines to access your creativity... This is a compelling book, which draws on a wide variety of thinking about creativity." - Business Executive