Creative Development

In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas.

In a world where entrepreneurship often seems to be driven by tech prodigies and venture-backed unicorns, many aspiring entrepreneurs find themselves wondering: “What if I don’t fit the stereotype of a Silicon Valley wunderkind? Is there a place for me in this landscape?” In Unstoppable Entrepreneurs, Lori Rosenkopf, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship at The Wharton School, shatters these limiting perceptions, revealing a diverse array of entrepreneurial paths that are open to anyone with the drive to create value through innovation.

In Be the One, author and speaker Justin Prince shares a roadmap, an instruction manual, that lays out simple but powerful steps you can take—today—to redesign your future and live an unforgettable life. Regardless of your roots, your background, your education, your experience, your resources, or your lack thereof.

Personal problems? World problems? Healing issues? Creativity challenges? They can all be resolved with a fun new method called “remembering.” The Remembering Process reveals a breakthrough creativity technique that anyone can use to easily create, produce, innovate, solve, resolve...and more! Beyond any New Age or self-help teaching, this process taps into the future as not only possible, but accessible in this very moment.

Addressing diverse issues depends on improving your soft skills - such as time management, team-building, communication and listening, creative-thinking, and problem-solving. But this isn’t as easy as it may seem. Sue Ashford has the solution. In this timely book, she introduces Flexing - a technique individuals, teams, and entire organizations can use to learn, grow, and develop their skills and knowledge with every new project, work assignment, and problem. Flexing empowers you to embrace any challenge and adapt to any change, yielding valuable takeaways that ensure growth.

This audiobook is for highly sensitive people who have felt out of place in the modern world. It provides a narrative that describes how they fit into a lineage of creatives throughout history. Jacob Nordby offers a bold new definition of success in the modern era. "The only success now is living and creating a work-of-art life: unique, rich with meaning, naked of anything we don't care about, and ruthless about carving out something absolutely real from a world that has gorged itself on fakeness and become critically ill from it."

Best-selling author, artist, and illustrator Lisa Congdon brings her expertise to this guide to the process of artistic self-discovery. Featuring advice from Congdon herself and interviews with a roster of established artists, illustrators, and creatives, this one-of-a-kind book will show listeners how to identify and nurture their own visual identity, navigate the influence of artists they admire, push through fear and insecurity, and appreciate the value of their personal journey.

What if you could enter any room—a business meeting, a social situation, a conference, an interview—with complete confidence, knowing just what to say and how to act, yet still be 100 percent yourself? Sound impossible? It's not. It's not even complicated. In How to Read a Room, communication expert Dr. Mike Bechtle shares his simple four-step process for accurately assessing any situation so that you can be comfortable, confident, and genuinely you.

Estrategias prácticas para tener más fuerza de voluntad, vencer la procrastinación, desarrollar una mayor capacidad de concentración y lograr cualquier iniciativa que te propongas.Perseverar y terminar lo que empiezas: dos habilidades que son más importantes de lo que crees. Son una combinación de atributos que te permiten materializar tus sueños (sin necesidad de sacrificios o paciencia). La ausencia de dichos atributos implica seguir atrapado en el statu quo.

Using case studies, success stories, and the latest research in the field of SFBT, listeners are given the tools, knowledge, and confidence to apply SFBT principles that will shift their perspective, retrain their brain, and change their relationship to their future.

From Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed business journalist Charles Fishman comes a brilliantly entertaining peek into the weekly "curiosity conversations" that have inspired Grazer to create some of America's favorite and iconic movies and television shows - from 24 to A Beautiful Mind.

What is your one thing? The entrepreneur, thought leader, and best-selling author of Called to Create offers a refreshing invitation: stop trying to do it all so you can thrive in your unique, God-given work. In this thought-provoking audiobook, you’ll discover the exponential power of pursuing a singular craft. Through practical principles, Jordan Raynor provides straightforward steps for finding and thriving in your calling. He also highlights more than a dozen real-life examples of high-impact individuals who have chosen to focus on and excel in their unique gifting.

Natalie Goldberg has been writing for the past fifty years. But at the beginning of the pandemic, she suddenly wasn’t able to write anymore. Her imaginative wellspring had dried up, and she was forced to ask herself: what do I do when what has always worked for me doesn’t work anymore? In this beautifully written, inspiring personal account, Natalie shares her harrowing journey out of creative paralysis and back onto the page.

You were born with a unique gift, which is like a seed in your heart waiting patiently to bloom. When you discover, nurture, and share your unique gift with the world, you become magnetic to all the resources needed to create your heart’s dream life. Your unique path to wealth was chosen by your Soul before you were born, but it’s not predestined that you’ll walk it. Your intuition is always available to help guide you down your path, but you must have the self-love to listen to and follow it.

Are you struggling to lead your team effectively? Do you find yourself micromanaging or avoiding confrontation? If so, 30 Days to Stop Being a Shitty Boss is the perfect guide to help you transform your leadership style. This 30-day program offers a transformative approach to leadership development, with daily exercises that blend mindfulness techniques, communication strategies, and self-reflection. You'll learn how to identify and address common leadership challenges, communicate more effectively with your team, and develop a greater sense of self-awareness and emotional intelligence. ...

When Kent Nerburn received a letter from Jennifer, a young woman questioning her calling to spend her life in the arts, the writer and artist was struck by how closely her questions mirrored the doubts and yearnings of his own youth. Nerburn resolved that he would write his own letter: a letter of welcome and encouragement to all young artists setting out on the same strange and magical journey, sharing the wisdom of a life spent working in the arts.

Do It Scared, by popular blogger and podcast host Ruth Soukup, is the essential handbook for any woman who has ever felt like she is sitting on the sidelines of her own life and is finally ready to jump in, dream big, and go after her goals. Equal parts inspiration and tough love, Do It Scared combines easy-to-implement tips with the motivation to start making real changes that lead to big results.

In How to be a Coffee Bean, bestselling coauthors of The Coffee Bean Jon Gordon and Damon West present 111 simple and effective strategies to help you lead a coffee bean lifestyle—one full of healthy habits, encouragement, and genuine happiness. From athletes to students and executives, countless individuals have been inspired by The Coffee Bean message. Now, How to be a Coffee Bean teaches you how to put The Coffee Bean philosophy into action to help you create real and lasting change in your life.

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.

“All Dreams are possible because I truly believe that everyone—and I mean everyone—has the seeds of true Genius inside them.” The quote comes from super entrepreneur Peter H. Thomas. It’s something he can prove because he has lived it. Not only has he lived it, he’s also spent an entire lifetime teaching others how find the Genius within, and in that discovery also realize that they can make all their dreams true. “See it! Believe it. Embrace it. Become it! And then work as hard as you can along the way to bring it all together.” The author of four other groundbreaking books...