- Paperback: 247 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (6 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385414625
- ISBN-13: 978-0385414623
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 1.5 x 20.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 778,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Following the extraordinary international success of Tom Wujec's first book, Pumping Ions, Five Star Mind teaches you to unlock and expand the creative potential you already possess -- although you might not know it -- and develop it to give you confidence and skills that will enhance your work and your life.
Using puzzles, tips, thought association, relaxation techniques, games of "What If," and constant questioning, Tom Wujec cajoles you into realizing your inherent power for creative thought and expression. In addition to helping you discover your innate abilities, Wujec shows you innumerable ways to apply your new ideas and creativity to work, to everyday life, or to just having fun. With Five Star Mind, you participate in the creative process, develop your inventiveness and imagination, and enhance skills that will have you cooking up five-star ideas of your own!
Using puzzles, tips, thought association, relaxation techniques, games of "What If," and constant questioning, Tom Wujec cajoles you into realizing your inherent power for creative thought and expression. In addition to helping you discover your innate abilities, Wujec shows you innumerable ways to apply your new ideas and creativity to work, to everyday life, or to just having fun. With Five Star Mind, you participate in the creative process, develop your inventiveness and imagination, and enhance skills that will have you cooking up five-star ideas of your own!
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51 of 51 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Now this is an interesting book! It describes how YOU can be more creative. Maybe you think you're not? Well, according to this book creativity is a process you can learn. And I must say that after having read this book I now understand why I sometimes are very creative and sometimes not. For instance, I play the guitar and are sometimes in a very spirited mood for writing new songs. This usually occurs after having spent a few weeks listening to new albums. When I don't - I rarely come up with some new and exciting riffs. You have to have the urge to get these impulses, but then again you need the impulses.
I think both the title and the subtitle (games & puzzles to stimulate your creativity and imagination) are a bit misleading. The focus is on the process and the author divides this creativity process into 8 "phases", drawing a metaphor to cooking food: Appetite - hunger for ideas, gather - collect ideas, cut - analyze ideas, mix - combine ideas, cook - concentrate on ideas, spice - season ideas, taste - evaluate ideas, digest - assimilate ideas. Within each of these he gives you valuable tools you can use.
It seems to me that when you gather information (e.g. listen to records or research a specific topic) you unconsciously cut and mix it with data and knowledge you already have, and thus forming new patterns which become new ideas. Knowing the process you can also do this deliberate. How wonderful!
There are lots of other books which describes methods for collecting thoughts and ideas (and does that better), but no one I have read or heard about describes the process as good as this one. Just think about what kind of preparation you should impose on your colleagues before they enter your next brainstorming session...
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I like this book, but you need to take it in small stages; there are loadsand loads of puzzles and lateral thinking activites to help get you mindworking. It's probably not the only book on the creative process you willever need, but as a trainer who has to teach people about creativedevelopment, I find some of the activites really useful
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful
A Few Stars Short of a Constellation
2 July 2000
Format:Paperback
I recently purchased this book and was somewhat disappointed when I sat down to read it. The subtitle is "Games & Puzzles to Stimulate Your Creativity & Imagination". Actually, there are only some thirty such puzzles and many of them are 'old chestnuts'. However, my biggest complaint is the lack of accuracy. The very first puzzle (p. 20) has a mistake in it. Then in 'Mental Counting' (p. 161), the author claims that the letters O and U are not symmetrical about the vertical axis. As for 'Three-dimesional Dots' (p. 199) the text states "Below is a collection of random dots." Unfortunately, the random dots have been omitted. So much for "something remarkable" happening as the author claims. And how's this for one of the three (yup, only three) lateral thinking puzzles? What common word begins with IS, ends with ND, and has LA in the middle? I bet that really stretched your brain, didn't it? Sorry, but Mr. Wujec's editor should be fired. These glaring mistakes and omissions have scuttled any enjoyment I may have expected from this book. I suspect the author was motivated by the commercial success of his previous book. He should have waited until he had something of value before publishing this schlock.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
GOOD CREATIVITY BOOK to complete your collection
13 April 2003
Format:Paperback
I bought a LOT of creativity books(at least i had 20+ on my collection), and i think this is one of the GOOD ONE, among other books.
I particulary like the chapter on Methapor, and some of the samples of GAMES/QUIZ that i even use for my creativity seminar/training.
A lot of GAMES and PUZZLES there that is fun, interesting and useful to generate creative brusts.
The whole book is set as a CREATIVE KITCHEN with chapters like Food for thoughts, Appetite, Gather, Cut, Mix, Cook, Spice, Taste and Digest.
This book can be useful even standing alone, being read by itself. Or if you are interested in creativity, it can stand tall along with all the classics like A whack at the side of the head (best classic creativity book), Orbitting the giant hairball, Jump start your brain, The Mind Map book, and all De Bono book.
This book's approach is fun and it explain in a good sense a lot of creativity stage and provide a lot of fun games.
Hope you can enjoy the book as much as i do.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
A description of the creativity process
4 Jan 2001
Format:Paperback
Now this is an interesting book! It describes how YOU can be more creative. Maybe you think you're not? Well, according to this book creativity is a process you can learn. And I must say that after having read this book I now understand why I sometimes are very creative and sometimes not. For instance, I play the guitar and are sometimes in a very spirited mood for writing new songs. This usually occurs after having spent a few weeks listening to new albums. When I don't - I rarely come up with some new and exciting riffs. You have to have the urge to get these impulses, but then again you need the impulses.
I think both the title and the subtitle (games & puzzles to stimulate your creativity and imagination) are a bit misleading. The focus is on the process and the author divides this creativity process into 8 "phases", drawing a metaphor to cooking food: Appetite - hunger for ideas, gather - collect ideas, cut - analyze ideas, mix - combine ideas, cook - concentrate on ideas, spice - season ideas, taste - evaluate ideas, digest - assimilate ideas. Within each of these he gives you valuable tools you can use.
It seems to me that when you gather information (e.g. listen to records or research a specific topic) you unconsciously cut and mix it with data and knowledge you already have, and thus forming new patterns which become new ideas. Knowing the process you can also do this deliberate. How wonderful!
There are lots of other books which describes methods for collecting thoughts and ideas (and does that better), but no one I have read or heard about describes the process as good as this one. Just think about what kind of preparation you should impose on your colleagues before they enter your next brainstorming session...
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