Summary: Real Artists Don’t Starve By Jeff Goins
You Aren’t Born an Artist The Starving Artist Believes You Must Be Born An Artist. The Thriving Artist Knows You Must Become One. The first …
Creativity
Summary: A Curious Mind By Brian Grazer
Curiosity has no cure Curiosity doesn’t only help you solve problems—no matter what those problems are. There’s a bonus: curiosity is free. You don’t need …
Summary: Zig Zag By Keith Sawyer
Keith has spent more than twenty years as a research psychologist studying how creativity works. He’s explored the lives of exceptional creators and learned the …
Summary: Find Your Artistic Voice By Lisa Congdon
While in mainstream culture, idiosyncrasies and differences are often seen as flaws; in our world — the world of artists — they are your strength. …
Summary: Create Or Hate By Dan Norris
What Have You Not Created Yet? Most of us have always wanted to make something, but for any number of reasons haven’t. What is that …
Summary: The Creative Curve By Allen Gannett
The Creative Curve Human pursuit of both familiarity and novelty results in a bell-shaped curve relationship between preference and familiarity. Take for example, we like …
Summary: Move the Needle by Shelley Brander
In Move the needle, Shelley Brander shares the stories that shaped her as a person, a wife and mother, a creative, and ultimately, as an …
Summary: The Right Story by Bernadette Jiwa
The Change Gap You can buy attention, but you can’t buy trust. Trust is earned. Trust takes time. Trust is the enabler of connection and …
Summary: The Innovation Code: The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict by Jeff DeGraff and Staney DeGraff
Innovation starts with two self-assessments—one devastating, the other uplifting: what’s the worst part about yourself and the best part about yourself. Once you’ve really identified …
Summary: The Creative Mindset: Mastering the Six Skills That Empower Innovation Book by Jeff DeGraff and Staney DeGraff
What Is the Creative Mindset? When we combine two seemingly basic elements that haven’t been brought together before, we can build something extraordinary. When we …
