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Enchanting creativity : how fairy tales, dreams, rituals & journaling can awaken your creative self / by Scardamalia, Paula Chaffee,Author(DLC)n 2006061135;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-127).Ever wish you had a magic wand to wave when a creative project wasn't going the way you wanted it to? Enchanting Creativity is a book to help the artist find their happily-ever-after by using a unique blend of fairy tales, dreams, rituals, and journaling, along with practical applications. Within the metaphoric structure of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, the book provides readers with techniques to remember, record, and work with waking and sleeping dreams; methods to expand the dream experience or as an alternative to dreaming; and tips to develop and use rituals to honor dreams and creative work. A fairy tale weaves its way through the chapters, providing an exploration of the creative process, while the author's personal creative experiences and those of her clients offer examples of dream and/or oracle work, journaling questions, and simple rituals. Create a bridge between the practical and the imaginal worlds and watch the power of your creative magic express itself.
Subjects: Creative ability.; Personality and creative ability.; Creative thinking.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Creative you : using your personality type to thrive / by Goldstein, David B.,1965-(CARDINAL)403354; Kroeger, Otto.(CARDINAL)193795;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-291).Meeting your creative self -- The sixteen creative types -- Cultivating courageous creativity.
Subjects: Creative ability.; Personality and creative ability.; Personality and occupation.; Typology (Psychology);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Drawing as a sacred activity : simple steps to explore your feelings and heal your consciousness / by Williams, Heather C.(CARDINAL)639517;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-186) and index.
Subjects: Drawing; Personality and creative ability.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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How to be weird : an off-kilter guide to living a one-of-a-kind life / by Wilson, Eric,1967-author.(CARDINAL)651468;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-214)."A guidebook for cultivating the surprising joys that come from living an off-kilter life We crave the weird-the quirky, the eccentric, the peculiar, the freaky, the far-out-because it takes us out of our normal habits of thought and perception, nullifies our old conceptual maps with which we navigate our lives, and propels us into uncharted regions. Or to put it more simply: weirdness is essential to an interesting life. In How to Be Weird, Eric G. Wilson offers 99 fun and philosophically rich exercises for embracing all the weird in the world around us--taking aimless walks, creating a reverie nook, exploring the underside of bridges, making tombstone rubbings, finding your own Narnia, and more. With brief digestible entries on how to make sense of the random, guidelines on how to defamiliarize familiar objects through meditation, and exercises for locating weird states and phenomena for ourselves, How to Be Weird is an invitation to lean into the weird and to live a fuller life"--
Subjects: Personality and creative ability.; Eccentrics and eccentricities.; Self-actualization (Psychology);
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 17
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The Van Gogh blues : the creative person's path through depression / by Maisel, Eric,1947-(CARDINAL)368677;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Artists; Artists; Depression, Mental.; Personality and creative ability.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Van Gogh blues : the creative person's path through depression / by Maisel, Eric,1947-(CARDINAL)368677;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) index.Two meaning casualties -- Reflecting on meaning -- Meaningful life, meaningful work, meaningful days -- Sounding silence -- Opting to matter -- Reckoning with the facts of existence -- Braving anxiety -- Nurturing self-support -- Disputing your happy bondages -- Confronting narcissism -- Repairing the self -- Forging relationships -- Meaningfully creating -- Taking action -- Making meaning.
Subjects: Depression, Mental.; Personality and creative ability.; Artists; Artists;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The call to create : celebrating acts of imagination / by Leonard, Linda Schierse.(CARDINAL)525992;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index.
Subjects: Personality and creative ability.; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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La melancolía creativa / by Ramírez-Bermúdez, Jesús,1973-author.(CARDINAL)896039; Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial,publisher.(CARDINAL)613933;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-177).Biografía de la melancolía -- Delirios melancólicos -- Anamnesis creativa: la trasmutación artística de la melancolía -- El precio a pagar por tener lenguaje -- Veinte balas -- Experiencia literaria y dolor social -- La emergencia creativa.Somos el lienzo de la melancolía: en buena parte devenimos el resultado de nuestras nostalgias y anhelos, de la lucha entre lo que quisimos ser y la conciencia de lo que realmente somos. Y este no es un fenómeno únicamente individual. La melancolía atraviesa la historia de Occidente: es un símbolo de la desilusión y el sufrimiento; un signo crítico que indica el desenlace de los disturbios colectivos y las limitaciones de todo esfuerzo civilizatorio. Pero también es un punto de partida de la travesía artística. Este ensayo establece puentes entre la historia de la psiquiatría, la narrativa clínica y la neurociencia para investigar los mecanismos ocultos de la creatividad y sus vínculos con la melancolía.We are a canvas for melancholy. In good measure we become the result of our longings and yearnings, of the struggle between what we wanted to be and the conscience of what we are. This is not a purely individual phenomenon. Longing pierces Western history, it is a symbol of disillusionment and suffering, a critical sign that points to the conclusion of collective disturbances and limitations in every civilizing effort. But it is also a starting point in artistic journeys. This essay builds bridges between the history of psychiatry, clinical narrative, and neuroscience to investigate the hidden mechanisms of creativity and its connections with melancholy.
Subjects: Informational works.; Creative ability; Personality and creative ability.; Melancholy.; Desire.; Creación literaria, artística, etc.; Melancolía.; Deseo.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Quirky : the remarkable story of the traits, foibles, and genius of breakthrough innovators who changed the world / by Schilling, Melissa A.,author.(CARDINAL)535135;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What really distinguishes the people who literally change the world--those creative geniuses who give us one breakthrough after another? What differentiates Marie Curie or Elon Musk from the merely creative, the many one-hit wonders among us? Melissa Schilling, one of the world's leading experts on innovation, invites us into the lives of eight people--Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Elon Musk, Dean Kamen, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, and Steve Jobs--to identify the traits and experiences that drove them to make spectacular breakthroughs, over and over again. While all innovators possess incredible intellect, intellect alone, she shows, does not create a breakthrough innovator. It was their personal, social, and emotional quirkiness that enabled true genius to break through--not just once but again and again. Nearly all of the innovators, for example, exhibited high levels of social detachment that enabled them to break with norms, an almost maniacal faith in their ability to overcome obstacles, and a passionate idealism that pushed them to work with intensity even in the face of criticism or failure. While these individual traits would be unlikely to work in isolation--being unconventional without having high levels of confidence, effort, and goal directedness might, for example, result in rebellious behavior that does not lead to meaningful outcomes--together they can fuel both the ability and drive to pursue what others deem impossible. Schilling shares the science behind the convergence of traits that increases the likelihood of success. And, as Schilling also reveals, there is much to learn about nurturing breakthrough innovation in our own lives--in, for example, the way we run organizations, manage people, and even how we raise our children.--
Subjects: Biographies.; Inventors; Personality and creative ability.; Genius.; Inventions.; Technological innovations.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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At the center of all beauty : solitude and the creative life / by Johnson, Fenton,author.(CARDINAL)774084;
Monks and rascals -- The forging of a solitary -- I to myself (Henry David Thoreau) -- The psychology of the Earth (Paul Cézanne) -- Formidably alone (Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson) -- The generosity of bachelors (Henry James) -- All serious daring begins within (Eudora Welty) -- The lover of God (Rabindranath Tagore) -- A soundless island in a tideless sea (Zora Neale Hurston) -- A man alone, a single woman (Rod McKuen and Nina Simone) -- Those who seek beauty will find it (Bill Cunningham) -- From loneliness to solitude."A meditation on solitude as a font of creativity and spirituality. Known for his lyrical prose and clear insight, Fenton Johnson explores what it means to be not "single"-meaningless outside of coupledom-but "solitary," able to be alone, inclined to mine the treasures of inner life. Americans tend to celebrate "fortress marriage," turning an equal right into an omnivorous expectation, marginalizing solitaries as odd, even potentially threatening. Johnson taps into an older tradition embodied by Trappist monks near the Kentucky home where he grew up, and by artists and writers including Paul Cezanne, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Rod McKuen, Nina Simone, and Bill Cunningham. Johnson includes his parents, who in workshop or garden found places to be alone; married people, too, can be solitaries in spirit. A hybrid of memoir, inspiration, social criticism, and celebration of the lives of great solitary artists, At the Center of All Beauty will resonate with anyone needing a break from the clamor of "society.""--
Subjects: Biographies.; Creative nonfiction.; Johnson, Fenton.; Solitude.; Personality and creative ability.; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Gay men; Gay men.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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