Creativity

 

Creativity: a short and cheerful guide / John Cleese, 103 pgs.

Hints and tips about creativity and how we can all be creative.  I think Cleese is a pretty good example.  He talks about his writing and how he evolved from a math/science/lawyer type guy into someone who was more creative.  Thriving means giving yourself a chance...keep revising, don't make decisions too quickly, give an idea time to percolate. This is truly a short and cheerful guide.  I wonder if it is short to maintain the cheerfulness.  He does tell of having fallow periods but nothing that seemed to stressful for him.  A nice reminder that we can all improve.

The World's Greatest Idea

The World's Greatest Idea: the fifty greatest ideas that have changed humanity by John Farndon 317 pgs.

This book is chock full of great ideas that have changed the world from weaving and spinning to the Internet.  I loved the short lesson on each and why it is important.  I've never tried to develop a list like this and probably couldn't so am glad that John Farndon and his panel of big brains have done it for me.  Fun to read and enlightening.

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