How to develop your creative identity at work integrating personal creativity within your professional role
According to the World Economic Forum, creativity is considered to be the third-most-important skill for employees, behind complex problem-solving and critical thinking. This book will help you rethink your creativity and its value in the work life, giving you access to intellectual, emotional, and...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York :
Apress
[2022]
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009710831506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: The Fit Between Your Creativity and Your Activities
- Chapter 1: Four Types of Creators
- When There's Hope, There Are Opportunities to Craft Your Role As a Creator
- Chapter 2: Definitions of Personal Creativity
- The Outside-In View: How Researchers Study Creativity
- Creativity As a Type of Thinking
- Creativity As a Process
- Creativity As an Outcome
- The Inside-Out View: How Recognized Creators Talk About Their Creativity
- Chapter 3: For an Updated View on Your Creativity, Make the Implicit Biases Explicit
- Two Ways to Relate to Your Creativity
- When Trust in Your Creative Capacity Outlasts Authority
- Gender Stereotypes That Confuse You About the Roles That Suit Your Creativity
- Flexing Creativity Archetypes
- Touching Base with the Creativity Formed in School Years
- Opening Up to Your Inner Creative Diversity
- To Be Creative Is to Think Twice About What You Deem to Be an Appropriate Curiosity to Follow
- Chapter 4: Impulses to Create
- Four Possible Temptations Toward Creative Activities
- Explore Your Creative Drive by Harmonizing the Importance of Creativity for Your Sense of Well-Being and Your Work Role
- Narrative 1: Being a Conformist
- Narrative 2: You Feel Misunderstood
- Narrative 3: You Compare Your Creativity with Others' Creativity
- Big-C Creativity
- Pro-C Creativity
- Little-c Creativity
- Mini-c Creativity
- Narrative 4: Creativity Achieved
- Chapter 5: Three Pathways to the Discovery of New Creative Impulses
- Emotional Availability Is Not Only for Artists
- Disrupt Your Patterns of Curiosities
- Childhood Activities
- Step Outside the Professional Sphere
- Use More of the Less Used Senses
- Take the Risk to Invest Time in Disruptive Activities.
- What Will They Think of Me?
- When to Expect That Your Actions Will Get the Validation of Your Loved Ones
- Balance Your Long-Term Personal Benefits with Others' Short-Term Benefits
- The Goal Is the Internal Shift
- Chapter 6: Toward the Workspaces Where New Curiosities Take You
- Summary of Part 1
- Self-Exploration Exercises: Orienting Yourself to the Next Stage of Creative Self-Development
- Part II: Learn to Live Like a Creator
- Chapter 7: Allow Your Tiny Genius to Roam Outside Your Comfort Zone
- Chapter 8: Crossing Paths with a New Curiosity
- A New Creative Curiosity, a New Set of Skills to Master
- Chapter 9: Allow Yourself to Create for Different Audiences
- The Social Part of "I" Is in Unrest
- A Part of the "I" Is Collective
- Be Like a Genius
- Know When to Be Flexible and When to Persevere
- The Flexibility to Make Room for New Curiosities
- The Perseverance to Create
- Four Personal Needs to Create
- The Love of Autonomy
- The Desire for Fairness
- The Need for Relatedness
- The Intention to Leave a Legacy of Personal Values
- Chapter 10: Committing to Your Creative Focus
- And They Lived Happily Through the Loops of Feedback
- Part 2 Summary - Learn to Live Like a Creator
- Part III: Priming Your Mind for Creative Insight
- Chapter 11: Why Habits of Inner Observation Strengthen the Identity As a Creator
- The Attraction Toward a Particular Domain
- Take the Creator in You for a Couple of Dates to Observe New Sensitivities
- Chapter 12: Follow Your Sense of Beauty
- Habit 1: The Discipline of Observing Your Sensitivities
- Habit 2: Question Your Interpretations
- Habit 3: Cultivate Your Intuition About What Questions to Focus On
- What Is Intuition and Why Is It Important?
- Optional Exercise 3: The Before and After Trust
- How to Discern Your Creative Intuition.
- Chapter 13: Manage Your Mood to Follow Your Intuition
- Habit 4: Emotions, Moods, and Ensuing Stories
- Habit 5: Practice Gratitude - When Pleasantly and Unpleasantly Surprised
- Habit 6: The Ratio of Self-Judgement to Self-Compassion
- Chapter 14: What's Next? Reassess the Creative Sensitivities That Will Drive You Toward the Next Project
- Part IV: Adopt a Creative Communication Style in Feedback Conversations
- Chapter 15: The Three Principles of a Creative Communication Style
- When and With Whom to Talk About Your Ideas
- Become a Participative Storyteller
- The Creative Integrity Mindset
- Chapter 16: Talking With Humor
- What Is Humor?
- What Creates Humor?
- When Do People Laugh Best?
- The Benefits of Positive Humor in Work Contexts
- Chapter 17: Leading Feedback Conversations With Improvised Humor
- Becoming the Person With a Tinge of Humor
- Step 1: Get into a Playful State of Mind
- Step 2: Get Ready to Make Room for a Witty Comment
- Step 3: Get Flexible to Adapt to an Appropriate Style of Humor
- Maintain the Interlocutor's Sense of Status by Carefully Curating the Content of the Jokes
- Practice the Sense of Humor That Fuels People's Creativity
- Is This a Good Moment for Improvised Humor?
- How to Manage the Situations When the Interlocutor Is Not Amused
- Chapter 18: Listen for Inspiration
- What Is an Attitude of Inspiration?
- Use Analogies to Sort Out Difficult Concepts and Ideas
- Choose Familiar Models of Reference
- Check the Internal Consistency of A and B
- Ensure That the Comparison Between A and B Is Valid
- Chapter 19: Listen for Imagination
- What Is Imagination?
- Is Imagination the Same As Fantasy?
- Three Imagination Activities That Lead to New Ideas
- Daydreaming
- Mind Wandering
- Perspective-taking
- Conversed Imagination
- The Time Perspective
- Engage in Role-Play.
- Contrasting Beliefs
- Falsifying Constraints
- The Humor of an Imagination Gap Can Save the Conversation
- Part 4 Summary
- Conclusions
- The Evolving Creator - Mind the Insight and Get to Work
- Without an Audience, There's No Purpose to Create Anything
- Index.
