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How to Have Kick-Ass Ideas: Get Curious, Get Adventurous, Get Creative (What If) (Paperback)

by Chris Barez-Brown (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Element (3 Jan 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007220944
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007220946
  • Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 18.6 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 37,620 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'I've seen ?What If! in action and it works.' Alan Yentob, BBC 'Chris Brown has the rare ability to inspire people to want to learn - he stimulates a passion for creative thinking.' James Meyer, Vice President Marketing, Kimberly-Clark Europe 'Chris's book is a champagne-in-the-veins tonic for jaundiced people who desire to revive the technicolour from a monochrome life. I heartily recommend it.' Tim Smit, co-founder and CEO of the Eden Project

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Practical and inspirational ways to help you kick-start your creativity, identify what you want and then make it happen. A playful and mind-expanding book by the training guru at What If!, the world's largest innovation consultancy, who will help you to unlock your creative juices and grow in new directions. Stuck in a rut, bored, dissatisfied, uninspired. Feel like it's Groundhog Day. Got a problem you don't know how to solve. But what if you knew exactly what you wanted and could make it happen, right now? To get there, you need creativity - you need some kick-ass ideas. We are all born creating machines, we've just forgotten how to use our natural inventiveness. In "How to Have Kick-Ass Ideas", Chris Barez-Brown, who turns companies around the world into highly creative and successful teams, pours his most kick-ass techniques into a book that reunites you with the imaginative genius inside you. Chris's playful, stimulating approach will energise you, and show you how to catch the creative wave to change your world. It's about fun, freshness and new ways of thinking, filling your life with new experiences and then getting playful. Find out exactly what it is you want and then make it real! Step-by-step, Chris guides you through the working principles of genuine creativity - Insight + Ideas + Impact = Inspiring Opportunities, that completely demystifies the creative process. The book includes case studies and imaginative practical exercises to kick-start your ideas: - 'Related Worlds': looking at where your issue has been solved before in a different area. It may be as bizarre as extreme sports or dental hygiene! - 'My clever friends' - imagine what somebody else might do in your situation - 'Go Visual' - capturing your issue without using words. You can sculpt, collage, whittle, whatever!

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Different, fun and practical too!, 28 Mar 2006
By Zoony (London, UK) - See all my reviews
An excellent book that is creative in its approach, design and delivery. There are lots of ideas in here to stimulate and energise your own creative juices. I've also found it's brilliant for starting up conversations in coffee shops when left on the table beside you. People will comment, in my experience it's guaranteed!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Get Curious, Get Adventurous, Get Creative: GET IT!, 22 Feb 2006
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I've read tonnes of books on creativity, trying to find something practical and fun to help me come up with inspiring new ideas. How to Have Kick-Ass Ideas is the first in a long time that did just that. It's easy to dip in and out of, and has a light and witty tone that makes it un-put-downable!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book!, 14 Feb 2006
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There are two things that make this book so good; one is how easy it is to try the tools and techniques out; the second is its overall tone. The author, whilst obviously loving both helping people and the subject matter (having ideas), channels his enthusiasm into putting the reader at ease: This stuff could change your life...but it could just help you figure out where to go on your next holiday or how to get more out of next weekend.
Subjects like self-belief or state (your various moods) are explained in simple yet unpatronising ways and as with the entire book it is up to us readers how far we go with them.
You can use bits and pieces from the book however you like and there is never a sense that it must be read through from front to back (though I did cos I couldn't put it down!) and then used in some structured way.
It is a very easy read and does what it says on the cover - helps you have kick ass ideas.
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I personally love this book. However, another review about the ridiculousness of some of the suggestions in the book, like "sleep on the other side", "do the dishes", etc, has... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Sumguy

2.0 out of 5 stars Devoid of any substance....
I am gobsmacked at how many people have commended this book. I wasn't sure if some of Barez-Brown's techniques for acquiring inspiration were actually a joke e. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
I absolutely loved this book! Creativity is a bit of a currency at the moment but How to Get Kick Ass Ideas gave me loads of easy, practical techniques which I'm now using... Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2007 by Angela Jenkins

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Average
At the start of the book when I read about the author I thought this book was going to be good, but instead I found it to be very average and not at all inspiring
Published on 21 May 2006 by Tara

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I really liked Chris Barez-Brown's book. It is very different to the usual American "How To" self-help book. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Proactive navel gazing!
This is an excellent book, in which Chris Barez-Brown shows us how to release the beast of creativity from within. Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2006 by Gaz Pacho

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb stimulus
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5.0 out of 5 stars an energising read
This book was so energetic and energising I read it in one day - mainly on my long train commute. It certainly got me & others curious - I noticed several people craning... Read more
Published on 24 Jan 2006 by norma29

5.0 out of 5 stars Motivational and Inspirational for work and play
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. For the first time in a long time I have read it cover to cover in about 2 sessions (last night and this morning), and have used the... Read more
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