Genius Health

This book will introduce you to the fundamentals, innovative techniques, and proven strategies that will unleash your inner creativity and elevate you to become a master of creative problem-solving. The scope of creative problem-solving is broad, covering everything from financial and technological challenges in business to personal health and well-being issues.

Após realizar um grande estudo sobre várias personalidades fascinantes e bem-sucedidas–entre políticos, estrategistas, artistas, cientistas e inventores–Robert Greene percebeu que todas essas pessoas, independentemente de sua área, da cultura ou do momento histórico a que pertenciam, seguiram um padrão similar em suas conquistas. E concluiu que o caminho para a maestria pode ser percorrido por qualquer um de nós.

When BIC, manufacturer of disposable ballpoint pens, wanted to grow, it looked for an idea beyond introducing new sizes and ink colors. Someone suggested lighters.

In this thought-provoking exploration, Matthew May defines elegance as the elusive combination of unusual simplicity and surprising power, and pinpoints the four key elements that characterize it: seduction, subtraction, symmetry, and sustainability. In a story-driven narrative that sheds light on the need for elegance in design, engineering, physics, art, urban planning, sports, and work, May offers a surprising array of stories that illustrate why what's "not there" often matters more than what is.

The creative mode in your brain is like a butterfly. It's beautiful and erratic, hard to catch, and highly valued as a result. If you want to capture it, you need a net. Enter the executive mode, the task-oriented network in your brain that helps you tie your shoes, run a meeting, or pitch a client. To succeed, you need both modes to work together - your inner butterfly to be active and free, but your inner net to be ready to spring at the right time and create that "aha!" moment. But is there any way to trigger these insights, beyond dumb luck?

Do games hold the secret to better productivity? If you’ve ever found yourself engrossed in Angry Birds, Call of Duty, or a plain old crossword puzzle when you should have been doing something more productive, you know how easily games hold our attention. Hardcore gamers have spent the equivalent of 5.93 million years playing World of Warcraft while the world collectively devotes about 5 million hours per day to Angry Birds. A colossal waste of time? Perhaps. But what if and use it for more creative and valuable pursuits?

This book is different from your typical self-help guide filled with abstract concepts. It's a down-to-earth, actionable manual, packed with proven strategies anyone can apply to become more creative, a better problem-solver, and learn anything faster.

Millions of listeners have embraced art teacher Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, from art students and teachers to established artists, corporate trainers, and more - all discovering a bold new way of drawing and problem-solving based on what we see, not what we think we see. In this highly anticipated follow-up, Edwards illuminates another piece of the creativity puzzle, revealing the role our dominant eye plays in how we perceive, create, and are seen by those around us.

So many of us go through life following scripts we didn’t write for ourselves - scripts designed by our family, shaped by our friends, and influenced by the expectations of the people we meet. Using practical self-help skills rooted in improv principles and depth psychology, we can live more authentic, fulfilled, and empowered lives.

Powerful strategies to unlock your children's potential and position them for academic and career success. According to Jordan Peterson, professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, "If you want to be the best at what you are doing, then having an IQ above 145 is a necessity - maybe pushing 160 in some situations."

This is an audio summary or Mindset, a book that discusses the differences between people with a fixed mindset versus those with a growth mindset. This book demonstrates how we can achieve our goals by changing our mindset.

To finish tasks and achieve goals, most people believe that more focus is the solution. We rely on to-do lists, calendar reminders, noise-blocking headphones, and sometimes medication to help us concentrate - even though these tactics often fail to substantially improve productivity. Drawing on the latest brain research, compelling stories from his psychological practice, and colorful examples of counterintuitive success from sports, business, education, and the arts, neuroscientist Srini Pillay, MD, challenges traditional ideas about productivity.

The hypnotherapy you are about to undergo will guide you to experience peace in mind, body, and spirit. The vivid suggestions, scientifically designed sounds, and the soothing voice of Dr. Siani will take you to a deep level of relaxation where you can concentrate on the details of the results you want to attract into your life.

With her trademark humor, enthusiasm, and no-nonsense guidance, Pam Grout, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of E-Squared, invites you on a yearlong "apprenticeship" to recognize and unleash your innate creativity. Making art does not necessarily mean painting a gallery-worthy still life or belting out a Grammy-winning song. It simply means finding a way to give your inner muse a voice in this world.

Raising an Entrepreneur presents 76 stories from the mothers of some of the most successful entrepreneurs today. Entrepreneurs are the new rock stars - they're the ones who turn their passions into ingenious projects, because they're willing to risk failure to make their dreams come true.

As you shift your mindset, you will automatically feel like taking inspired action in alignment with what you want. So that you can manifest more money and abundance while tuning yourself into new opportunities. In this audiobook, you will discover the best methods to help you align your mindset and actions to the energy of money, wealth, and abundance (in a very practical way)!

This book is duct tape for the mouth of every artist's inner critic. Silencing that stifling voice once and for all, this salve for creatives introduces 10 truths they must face in order to defeat self-doubt. Each encouraging chapter deconstructs a pivotal moment on the path to success - fear of the blank page, the dangers of jealousy, sharing work with others - and explains how to navigate roadblock.

Amidst the deluge of advice for businesspeople, there lies an overlooked tool, a key to thriving in today's fast-paced, unpredictable environment: improvisation. In Getting to "Yes And" veteran improv performer, university professor, CEO, and consultant Bob Kulhan unpacks a form of mental agility with powers far beyond the entertainment value of comedy troupes.

In The Genius Checklist, Dean Keith Simonton examines the key factors in creative genius and finds that they are more than a little contradictory. Simonton, who has studied creativity and genius for more than four decades, draws on both scientific research and stories from the lives of famous creative geniuses that range from Isaac Newton to Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf. Simonton's checklist gives us a new, integrative way to understand geniuses - and perhaps even to nurture your own genius.

"Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species, and its ultimate goal, self-understanding", begins Edward O. Wilson's sweeping examination of the humanities and its relationship to the sciences. By studying fields as diverse as paleontology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience, Wilson demonstrates that human creativity began not 10,000 years ago, as we have long assumed, but over 100,000 years ago in the Paleolithic Age.