THE ART OF EVERYDAY GENIUS: 42 Creative Insights to Transform Your Daily Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary From Gizem Şahan, the visionary engineer turned coach and expert in creative problem-solving. What if you could unlock your hidden potential every single day? In this inspiring book, Gizem Şahan guides you how to see the extraordinary in the ordinary and turn everyday problems into opportunities for growth and joy. "Creative Solutions for Ordinary Problems" reveals not just one, two, or even ten, but precisely 42 brilliant strategies to turn mundane challenges into extraordinary breakthroughs. Why 42? In a clever nod to Douglas Adams, Gizem Şahan playfully addresses his iconic answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. Why You'll Love This Book: ★ Creative & Scientific Insights: Unlock creative solutions to everyday problems, from digital overload to relationship complexities. ★ Joy in the Ordinary: Discover delight in the most unexpected places, turning the mundane into magical moments. ★ Empowering Exercises: Practical activities designed to ignite your creativity and enhance problem-solving skills. ★ Personal Growth: Transform daily challenges into powerful lessons for self-improvement and growth. If you are: ★ Struggling with routine and feeling uninspired... ★ Frustrated with traditional solutions that fall short... ★ Successful yet creatively stuck... ★ Eager to infuse joy into your daily life and see challenges as stepping stones… ...then this book is your perfect companion. This isn't just another self-help book. It is a mentor, a compass, and an exhilarating companion for anyone committed to living a life less ordinary. Gizem challenges you to break from the norm, to dare to envision a life where every obstacle is an opportunity for creativity and transformation. Using her unique blend of insightful wisdom, science-backed approach, and practical exercises, Gizem will guide you how to make creativity a habit. This will boost your confidence, transform your mindset, and help you achieve your dreams. Who Should Read This Book: ★ Lifelong Learners: For those eager to explore and grow continuously. ★ Creativity Enthusiasts: Ideal for anyone who believes in the power of creative thinking. ★ Personal Growth Seekers: Perfect for those on a quest for self-discovery and improvement. ★ Anyone Stuck in a Rut: Find fresh perspectives and innovative solutions to life's challenges. Chapters Include: ★ The Art of Starting: Why You’re Not Lazy, You’re Just Programmed That Way ★ The Power of Routine & Habit: Establish a Transformational Daily Routine ★ Outwitting the Impostor: A Clever Guide to Claiming Your Worth ★ Finding ‘The One’ in the Modern Age: Navigating Love and Relationships in Today’s World ★ Perfectly Imperfect: Breaking the Chains of Perfectionism ★ The Art of Saying No: Setting Personal Boundaries ★ Transitioning Careers: Navigating the Challenges of Changing Career Paths ★ Unlock Your Gut Genius: Mastering the Art of Intuitive Intelligence ★ Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Making the Big Decision About Your Job “Imagine if life came with a blueprint. Well, it doesn’t. So, I decided to draft one. Spoiler: It’s unlike anything you’d expect. It’s time to discover the genius within you.” Love, Gizem Şahan Join this journey and discover the magic hidden in your daily life. Order your copy today and start turning the mundane into the magical. The adventure begins now!

Poses the question, how can you energize people to see problems not as obstacles to success but as opportunities for innovation? Looks at what makes a lateral leader - the kind of person who can create a climate of creativity by inspiring people to have the confidence to take risks, and who can then develop their skills in creative techniques. Presents practical exercises for implementing the principles of lateral thinking and uses real-life examples to illustrate the rules, principles and processes involved.

Do you want to have great ideas? Do you want to break out of the rut of conventional thinking? Would you like to be a genius? Would presenting brilliant ideas help in your job, career and social life? How to be a Brilliant Thinker will help you to achieve all these ideals, by helping you to think in powerful new ways. It shows you how to harness techniques in lateral thinking, analytical thinking, problem analysis, idea generation and other areas so that you become much more creative. You will be able to conceive, evaluate and implement great ideas as well as improve your memory, sell your ideas and win arguments. It is packed with practical methods that you can put to immediate use, backed up by exercises, puzzles, quizzes, graphics and illustrations.

The hallmark of an exceptional career is the ability to devise innovative solutions for work challenges. Therefore, creative thinking skills are vital for your professional advancement. Recent research has revealed a direct causality between ideas and profitability, which means that in today’s competitive and technology-rich work environment, the most crucial element separating an extraordinary career from an ordinary one is creative thinking skills. As one of the world's premiere success experts, Brian Tracy knows anyone can become more creative by practicing with a few helpful tools. This concise, easy-to-read book guides you to immediately begin generating a stream of productive ideas. In Creativity & Problem Solving, Tracy reveals 21 proven techniques that will help you: Stimulate the three primary triggers to creativity Inspire a creative mindset in staff through recognition, rewards, and environment Use methods to solve problems, improve systems, devise new products, and come up with fresh, exciting marketing angles Ask focused questions to generate elegant solutions Understand the difference between mechanical and adaptive thinking Rigorously evaluate new ideas without shutting down the creative impulse Containing mind-stimulating exercises and down-to-earth strategies, Creativity & Problem Solving will help you tap into the root source of their own intuitive genius--and gain the winning edge they’ve been missing all this time.

How cognitive psychology explains human creativity Conventional wisdom holds that creativity is a mysterious quality present in a select few individuals. The rest of us, the common view goes, can only stand in awe of great creative achievements: we could never paint Guernica or devise the structure of the DNA molecule because we lack access to the rarified thoughts and inspirations that bless geniuses like Picasso or Watson and Crick. Presented with this view, today's cognitive psychologists largely differ finding instead that "ordinary" people employ the same creative thought processes as the greats. Though used and developed differently by different people, creativity can and should be studied as a positive psychological feature shared by all humans. Creativity: Understanding Innovation in Problem Solving, Science, Invention, and the Arts presents the major psychological theories of creativity and illustrates important concepts with vibrant and detailed case studies that exemplify how to study creative acts with scientific rigor. Creativity includes: * Two in-depth case studies--Watson and Crick's modeling of the DNA structure and Picasso's painting of Guernica-- serve as examples throughout the text * Methods used by psychologists to study the multiple facets of creativity * The "ordinary thinking" or cognitive view of creativity and its challengers * How problem-solving and experience relate to creative thinking * Genius and madness and the relationship between creativity and psychopathology * The possible role of the unconscious in creativity * Psychometrics--testing for creativity and how personality factors affect creativity * Confluence theories that use cognitive, personality, environmental, and other components to describe creativity Clearly and engagingly written by noted creativity expert Robert Weisberg, Creativity: Understanding Innovation in Problem Solving, Science, Invention, and the Arts takes both students and lay readers on an in-depth journey through contemporary cognitive psychology, showing how the discipline understands one of the most fundamental and fascinating human abilities. "This book will be a hit. It fills a large gap in the literature. It is a well-written, scholarly, balanced, and engaging book that will be enjoyed by students and faculty alike." --David Goldstein, University of Toronto

Creative Approaches to Problem Solving (CAPS) is a comprehensive text covering the well-known, cited, and used system for problem solving and creativity known as Creative Problem Solving (CPS). CPS is a flexible system used to help individuals and groups solve problems, manage change, and deliver innovation. It provides a framework, language, guidelines, and set of easy-to-use tools for understanding challenges, generating ideas and transforming promising ideas into action. Features and Benefits: - Specific objectives in each chapter for the reader - This provides a clear focus for instruction or independent learning - Practical case study introduced in the beginning of each chapter and then completed as a "rest of the story" toward the end of the chapter - This feature provides an application anchor for the reader - Upgraded mix of graphics - These updated and refreshed graphics include tables, figures, and illustrative images that are designed to provide "pictures" to go along with the word. The aim has been to aid attention, retention, and practical application - Enhanced emphasis on flexible, dynamic process-- Enables users to select and apply CPS tools, components, and stages in a meaningful way that meets their actual needs - A framework for problem solving that has been tested and applied across ages, settings, and cultures-- Readers can apply a common approach to process across many traditional "boundaries" that have limited effectives. Creative Approaches to Problem Solving has been (and continues to be) used as a core text for faculty who are teaching courses in Creative Problem Solving or Creativity and Innovation as part of an MBA program, or in Education, a course on Creativity (often as a component of certification or endorsement requirements in gifted education). It is also used as a core text for those enrolled in professional development, continuing education, or executive education programmes.

IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the "creative types." But two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative. In an incredibly entertaining and inspiring narrative that draws on countless stories from their work at IDEO, the Stanford d.school, and with many of the world's top companies, David and Tom Kelley identify the principles and strategies that will allow us to tap into our creative potential in our work lives, and in our personal lives, and allow us to innovate in terms of how we approach and solve problems. It is a book that will help each of us be more productive and successful in our lives and in our careers.