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Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life
Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life
Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life
Audiobook6 hours

Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life

Written by Marc Silber

Narrated by Michael Anthony

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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About this audiobook

Find Your Creative Artist Within
Creative conversations from some of the world's top photographers, filmmakers, Grammy award winners, TED presenters, actors, CEOs and more!

Time for a new mindset. Many of us think of creativity as something distant and incompatible with daily life—a skill that artists get to use, but not the rest of us. Maybe you feel like a land-locked surfer, yearning for exhilarating rides. Or maybe you live for the few hours a week when you can take photographs, paint, or write. It’s time for a new mindset. Create shows you how to rediscover the artist within you.

Live a more creative life. People who make a living in the creative arts know that there is a cycle to unlocking the imagination. Visualize, know your tools, work your craft, refine, share. When you tap into this cycle, you’ll find ways to operate at your highest state in all aspects of life.

Find your creative purpose. Overcoming the barriers to innovation is easier than you think. Marc Silber, best selling author, award-wining creative and educator, shows you how to avoid the traps of procrastination, overthinking, and self-doubt. The exercises in Create are specifically designed to help you find certainty and confidence in self-expression.

Learn how to:

Master the techniques of visualization
Draw inspiration from the world around you
Collaborate with people who can further your vision
Share with others to spread the joy
If you enjoyed motivational books like The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, and Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way: 25th Anniversary Edition, you’ll love Create.

Editor's Note

Exercise in creativity…

Creativity is like a muscle that needs exercise, so consider “Create” a sort of boot camp for your brain. Award-winning photographer and educator Marc Silber brings together some of the best minds, from filmmakers to CEOs to TED speakers, to help readers pump up their creative lives and let their inner artists shine.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 19, 2021
ISBN9781094411699
Author

Marc Silber

Marc Silber is the author of the bestselling book Advancing Your Photography and an award-winning professional video producer, photographer, and photography educator who has been successfully working in the field for decades. Marc combines his passion for the visual art of photography with his love of life. He started out learning darkroom skills and the basics of photography at the legendary Peninsula School in Menlo Park, CA in the ’60s, and moved on to hone his skills to professional standards at the famed San Francisco Art Institute, one of the oldest and most prestigious schools of higher education in art and photography in the United States. Since then, Marc has been a dedicated educator. He began his teaching career at the age of nineteen at the National Outdoor Leadership School, teaching mountaineering. When teaching a life-or-death subject such as mountaineering, one learns how to make sure the students understand the material. When Marc moved into teaching photography in workshops all over the country, he became renowned as an engaging and helpful speaker and coach, as his greatest joy comes from helping others. Most recently, Marc has embraced the digital age with a highly popular YouTube show also named Advancing Your Photography, which has won several Telly Awards and other recognition for his work there. This new book on composition, The Secrets to Taking Amazing Photos, is a distillation of all the pro tips and wisdom from his YouTube series, coupled with his research of the master artists in a format you can take with you and refer to constantly when you are out creating your photographs.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Loved it. Very inspiring. Will listen again and do exercises
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It feels disjointed. The author tries to cover every kind of creative from painter, to writer, photographer, audio technician, and more. Some parts feel a bit like rambling with stories you're waiting to connect.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The honesty and the simple practical advice given makes this book a real winner!!! I will read this book again and again!
    Thank you for igniting that creative flame ?
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Everyone could live an artistic live without being an artist . Amazing encouragement and he gives some ideas how you can add creativity to your life
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was a great book for creators or anyone that wants to be creative.

    I was not thrilled with the voice talent doing the reading. His voice is amazing but his pronunciation of some commonplace words was a bit more than peculiar sometimes (Van “Goff” and “Zjar” instead of Genre “Zjan-ra” to name a couple).

    Still definitely worth the listen and worthy of the full 5 stars
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Amazing motivational book, captivating and amazingly read, loved it ?.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This gives you ideas for being creative in any field in life. Would recommend for everyone.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Two stars seems generous. Unimaginatively dull and insipid. Waste of time.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    The book is great but the narrator's attitude is annoying :(
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    It is new so here is a rating good job on making the book!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I wanted to like this more; Silber's YouTube photography channel is well packaged and thought-provoking. But... while the book is well-structured, there's little material bringing new insight, and once the form is established (biog story + ideas + suggestions + interview), it struggles to remain strong. (And from this reader, Silber loses at least one star by describing a case study interviewee as "model, TV personality, lifestyle guru" in "an extrordinary array of talents". Possibly that is the case in California - along with using the "guru" label three times in the introduction.)

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