num_pages: 279
description: Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output?From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. Shattering the myth of muses higher powers even creative types Jonah Lehrer demonstrates that creativity is not a single gift possessed by the lucky few. Its a variety of distinct thought processes that we can all learn to use more effectively.Lehrer reveals the importance of embracing the rut thinking like a child daydreaming productively and adopting an outsiders perspective (travel helps). He unveils the optimal mix of old and new partners in any creative collaboration and explains why criticism is essential to the process. Then he zooms out to show how we can make our neighborhoods more vibrant our companies more productive and our schools more effective.Youll learn about Bob Dylans writing habits and the drug addictions of poets. Youll meet a Manhattan bartender who thinks like a chemist and an autistic surfer who invented an entirely new surfing move. Youll see why Elizabethan England experienced a creative explosion and how Pixars office space is designed to spark the next big leap in animation.Collapsing the layers separating the neuron from the finished symphony Imagine reveals the deep inventiveness of the human mind and its essential role in our increasingly complex world. http://www.jonahlehrer.com/ 
language: English
title: Imagine: How Creativity Works
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt