Creativity: The Owner's Manual (Owner's Manual for the Brain)
Language: English
Pages: 100
ISBN: B00IHZY52Y
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Cutting-edge, user-friendly, and comprehensive: the revolutionary guide to the brain, now fully revised and updated
At birth each of us is given the most powerful and complex tool of all time: the human brain. And yet, as we well know, it doesn't come with an owner's manual—until now. In this unsurpassed resource, Dr. Pierce J. Howard and his team distill the very latest research and clearly explain the practical, real-world applications to our daily lives. Drawing from the frontiers of psychology, neurobiology, and cognitive science, yet organized and written for maximum usability, The Owner's Manual for the Brain, Fourth Edition, is your comprehensive guide to optimum mental performance and well-being. It should be on every thinking person's bookshelf.
- What are the ingredients of happiness?
- Which are the best remedies for headaches and migraines?
- How can we master creativity, focus, decision making, and willpower?
- What are the best brain foods?
- How is it possible to boost memory and intelligence?
- What is the secret to getting a good night's sleep?
- How can you positively manage depression, anxiety, addiction, and other disorders?
- What is the impact of nutrition, stress, and exercise on the brain?
- Is personality hard-wired or fluid?
- What are the best strategies when recovering from trauma and loss?
- How do moods and emotions interact?
- What is the ideal learning environment for children?
- How do love, humor, music, friendship, and nature contribute to well-being?
- Are there ways of reducing negative traits such as aggression, short-temperedness, or irritability?
- What is the recommended treatment for concussions?
- Can you delay or prevent Alzheimer's and dementia?
- What are the most important ingredients to a successful marriage and family?
- What do the world's most effective managers know about leadership, motivation, and persuasion?
- Plus 1,000s more topics!
dissimilar backgrounds and specialties. Dunbar argues that this diversity of researchers allows reasoning from analogous situations. Analogous situations suggest novel approaches, whereas laboratories that are staffed with researchers who have similar backgrounds and specialties lack this fecund source of insights. Applications Expose your children to role models with talents that you suspect the children possess. Where creative output is necessary, ensure that diverse resources are allowed to
Dianne Jensen’s catalog): www.thebrainstore.com Edward de Bono’s site: www.edwdebono.com The Intuition Network: www.intuition.com Liked what you just read? Click here to purchase the complete version of The Owner’s Manual for the Brain The Author Pierce J. Howard is director of research of the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies (CentACS), a research and dissemination firm headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. His wife, Jane, is managing director at CentACS. Together, they develop
you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.” A dated but highly effective introduction to heuristics is Zuce Kogan’s Essentials in Problem Solving (1956). Also full of insightful tips are Adams (1980), Bandler and Grinder (1982), de Bono (1967), M. Fisher (1981), P. Goldberg (1983), and von Oech (1983). 3. Work style. A positive work style consists of the ability to sustain long periods of concentration, the ability to abandon nonproductive approaches, persistence during
hand, and (b) the task is heuristic rather than algorithmic” (see topic 26.4). She then identifies three criteria for distinguishing more creative contributions from less creative ones: (1) novelty (we haven’t seen or heard this before), (2) relevance (it relates to satisfying the need that originally prompted the contribution), and (3) spontaneity (the contributor didn’t use a formula to “mechanically” come up with the contribution). Margaret Boden (1990), thinking in parallel with Amabile,
and his three-phase philosophy of creativity: 1. Suji (knowledge), similar to Wallas’s preparation step 2. Pika (inspiration), similar to the incubation and illumination steps combined 3. Iki (practicality), similar to the evaluation step Thompson describes this process as “Ready, Fire, Aim.” NakaMats has a static room consisting only of natural materials (plants, natural fibers, and wood, but no plastic) and a dynamic room with music, video, and other media for stimulation. After spending