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Aha!: 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas
 
 

Aha!: 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas [Kindle Edition]

Jordan Ayan
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"Aha! is a joyful, upbeat survey of ideas for enhancing creativity. Jordan Ayan's enthusiasm is hard to resist, and every reader will find personally suitable strategies. Aha! is an inspiring yet practical guidebook for freeing the creative spirit."
--Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

"A delightful romp through the rich and complicated field of creativity. Ayan's Aha! is bound to make the reader's thinking more interesting and original."
--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, ph.d., author of Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience

"The future belongs to those who create it. Jordan Ayan's exceptional book will show you how to create yours by providing the keys to unlock your great ideas."
--Daniel Burrus, author of Technotrends and a leading technology forecaster

Behind every successful venture, there's a great idea. If you haven't found your great idea yet, or if you've always thought you "just weren't the creative type,"  Jordan Ayan's accessible and entertaining book will give you the confidence to listen to your own creative spirit and to find the breakthrough you've been waiting for. Based on the notion that creativity is a life skill that must be continually cultivated, Ayan offers ten strategies for finding and harnessing inspiration--wherever and whenever it occurs. His mini workshops will show you how travel, reading, the arts, new technology, journaling, and more can form the basic building blocks of a more creative and rewarding life.


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From the Author

Advance praise for Aha!


Roger von Oech, Author of A Whack on the Side of the Head says:
"Jordan Ayan -- the 'Wizard of Aha's' -- has presented us with a treasure trove of techniques to stimulate our creative juices. A lot fun!"


Product details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 1599 KB
  • Print Length: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Crown Archetype (30 Jun 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B003FCVF2W
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #321,452 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For me, the first 50 pages were the most useful part of this book, where Jordan Ayan reminds us of the barriers we put in the way of creativity and the damage done by adulthood. The sections on the four stage process of creativity, the seven forms of intelligence and comfort zones are brilliant.

Indeed as I glance back through my volume I find the first fifty or so pages covered with highlighter of varying colours, notes and dog eared pages.

This is less apparent once the books gets into the actual strategies, which basically revolve around the theme of opening yourself to new experiences and knowledge in order to live a creative lifestyle.

A very useful introduction to Creativity then with some good ideas about becoming more generally creative and definitely worth buying. If you are looking for specific creative thinking tools though, look at some of Tony Buzan's excellent work or that of Edward de Bono as well.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Good book 10 July 1999
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Format:Paperback
A good inspirational book for those who need inspiration. Well-written and informative but lacks the specific tools and techniques one needs to become more creative.
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There are a lot of (good) books about creativity. But if you want to PRACTICE creativity, this is the book. Buy it, read it, and assimilate. You will be rewarded.
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new idea surfaces in your mind to answer the creative challenge you have faced. &quote;
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The incubation stage is commonly known as the time-out phase, the period when you store the information you have gathered and cease to focus on it or consciously think about it. &quote;
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In the preparation stage, your mind collects information and data that serve as background or research for a creative issue you are working on. &quote;
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