You don’t have to be the next Van Gogh or Shakespeare to be creative. This is the core message of A Head Full of Ideas, as psychologist Tanya Kuekenstedt wants to teach us how to allow more creativity into our lives.
In seven chapters, the author explains what creativity actually is, what happens in the brain, what role motivation, stress, alertness, and resilience play, and the best way to get into the flow. She interrupts her stories for a variety of exercises that encourage readers to think actively and carry them out. The relaxed and friendly title with “du” and the list of exercises at the start is great. Long classes are less fun. A more subtle subdivision would have helped to see the common thread better and work on different aspects more clearly. Plus, Queckenstedt repeats a lot of information – like the sentence that we don’t have to be world-famous stars to be creative.
To predict: It’s a nice book for people who have hardly dealt with creativity before. Anyone who begins reading without any prior knowledge will be chosen with many clear examples, interesting historical context, and some well-explained technical terms. Tanya Queckenstedt also tells how scientific questions are examined and what difficulties there are. Short summaries at the end of the chapters complete the whole.
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