What if the smartest people in the world understand something that the rest of us don't? (They do.) What if they know that in order to achieve success, they will sometimes have to do things that others may initially perceive as stupid? The fact of the matter is that the smartest people in the world don't run from stupid, they lean into it (in a smart way). Richie Norton redefines stupid as we know it, demonstrating that life-changing ideas are often...

Explores language, music, and dance as interpreted though the author's works, combining memoir and essay to explore her deconstruction of English in her celebrated play "For colored girls" and her views on life as a woman and a black individual.

The book presents a contrasting study of the views of ancient Indian, Chinese, Greek, Middle Eastern, and Russian philosophers on creativity. It also discusses the subject of creativity as viewed by Freud, Jung, Adler, the Gestalt school, and other prominent Western psychologists. A special place is provided for an overview of the history of Soviet psychology, and of the revival of psychology in Azerbaijan after the fall of the Soviet Union. The author...

With guidance from Miss Brown--a teacher who's an expert on creativity--the third grade class at Ella Mentry School builds a car and a bridge to compete in a Brain Games competition against Dirk School.

When Peter breaks his mother's mug while Maya is babysitting him and Pinkalicious, Pinkalicious tries to turn the broken pieces into art.

"What makes some high achievers great human beings?...Confirming the theories of psychologist Abraham Maslow, Van de Mark brings to life 19 specific personality traits that you can develop within yourself to emulate the great and the good--"--P. [4] of cover.

Business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive in a competitive world, yet chronically reject creative solutions and often embrace the familiar. Could it be that people love but also hate creative ideas? Could the "best practices" that organizations employ to manage innovation inadvertently kill innovation? Mueller provides a four-step process to help you disrupt your current mindset and recognize creative opportunity,...

It is already clear that the creative principles we are using to guide our abstractions and to conceive the reality around us are obsolete and in urgent need of revision. Inspired by the holographic paradigm, as well as by some other concepts from quantum physics, this book suggests an alternative and contra-intuitive path, to help us reach the best results with the least effort in everything we do. But, it all comes at a price: the change in our...

Everyone encounters facts about the economy daily. Families wonder how to stretch their dollars until the next paycheck, or hear about gas prices going up. Through this thoughtful book, readers gain insight into how a market economy functions, and the role that small businesses and entrepreneurs play in the system. They will experience the excitement of innovators and entrepreneurs of the past and present, developing products and bringing them to...