Creative Thinking For Dummies

Creative Thinking For Dummies

by David Cox
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 22/04/2016

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Creative thinking made easy


Being creative can be tough - and trying to come up with great ideas under pressure can leave the great ideas under wraps! Creative Thinking For Dummies helps you apply creative thinking techniques to everything you touch, whether it's that novel you have inside you or the new business idea you've had that will make you the next hot entrepreneur ??? or anything in between.


Creative Thinking For Dummies is a practical, hands-on guide packed with techniques and examples of different ways to think creatively. It covers a range of techniques, including brainstorming, lateral thinking, mind mapping, synectics, drawing and doodling your way to great ideas, meditation and visualization, word and language games, and divergent thinking.



  • See the world in a different way, and realise that you are surrounded by creative inspiration

  • Brainstorm new ideas successfully and try out some lateral thinking exercises

  • Open your mind to a new way of thinking and nail down those great ideas

  • Discover creative thinking techniques using games, words, drawings, and storytelling

  • Let creativity enhance all aspects of your life, whether developing your personal skills, becoming more professionally effective, or using creative thinking techniques to help your children develop their creative minds


You'll soon discover that everybody, including you, has a wealth of creative potential within—you just need to tap into it!

ISBN:
9781118381632
9781118381632
Category:
Memory improvement & thinking techniques
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
22-04-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
David Cox

David Cox was born and reared in country Queensland. He worked as a jackaroo on outback sheep and cattle stations before enrolling, at 21, at St Martins School of Art in London. Back in Australia he became a newspaper artist, winning a Walkley Award, while also illustrating and writing many award-winning children's books, including four CBCA-shortlisted titles. In fact, he become one of Australia's most prolific book illustrators, with over 30 books published.

In 2007, David won the Dame Annabelle Rankin Award for distinguished services to Children's Literature in Queensland. He released two companion titles to The Road to Goonong: The Fair Dinkum War, recalling his childhood during WWII; and Good Enough for a Sheep Station, exploring his life as a stockman. In 2020, David's book with writer Ella Holcombe about the Victorian Black Saturday fires, The House on the Mountain, was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature's Children's Literature Award.

David works from his home studio in Brisbane, and one of his hobbies is singing. He is coached by his wife, pianist/composer, Betty Beath. Betty and David have written music theatre pieces about St Francis of Assisi, and David regularly acts as cantor at St Phillips Church, which is attached to a Franciscan friary.

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