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    Crack Your Creativity: How to Cultivate a Creative Mindset and Process to Let Your Creativity Flow
    Crack Your Creativity: How to Cultivate a Creative Mindset and Process to Let Your Creativity Flow
    Crack Your Creativity: How to Cultivate a Creative Mindset and Process to Let Your Creativity Flow
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    Crack Your Creativity: How to Cultivate a Creative Mindset and Process to Let Your Creativity Flow

    By Esther Kurtz

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    When you hear “creativity,” you might think of sculpting or poetry or art. But creativity is about more than expressing a talent — it’s an approach to problem solving that’s valuable for everyone. It’s about opening your mind to the bigger picture. If you’re not already, or if you’d like to give your creativity a boost, how can you access this power?

    In Crack Your Creativity, an audio course from Scribd Coach, author and creativity coach Esther Kurtz has some advice. In the course, she dispels myths about creativity, shares a five-step creative process, and explores the creative mindset needed to keep the innovative juices flowing. She also shares tools and exercises you can begin using right away to enhance your creativity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribd Coach
    Release dateOct 26, 2021
    ISBN9781094432823
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    Esther Kurtz

    Esther Kurtz is a writer, teacher, creativity coach, speaker, and curious contrarian. She creates courses on creativity and writing and is the author of the novel Rule of Three. You can find more about Esther on her website, estherkurtz.com.

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      Crack Your Creativity - Esther Kurtz

      Crack Your Creativity

      Crack Your Creativity

      How to Cultivate a Creative Mindset and Process to Let Your Creativity Flow

      Esther Kurtz

      Scribd Coach

      Copyright © 2021 by Esther Kurtz

      All rights reserved

      ISBN: 9781094432823

      First e-book edition: October 2021

      Scribd, Inc.

      San Francisco, California

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      About Scribd Coach

      This ebook is brought to you by Scribd Coach, a new imprint from Scribd dedicated to short-form, inclusive, and insightful personal and professional growth courses written by recognized experts.

      Each Scribd Coach course is available in audiobook format or as an ebook transcribed from the audio course — like the book you’re about to read. If you’re interested in the audio edition of this course, or if you’d like to read more personal growth content from Scribd Coach, check out the Scribd Coach imprint page. 

      You can share your thoughts on this title by rating and leaving a review on the book page. Thanks for reading — enjoy!

      Introduction

      Hello, everyone! I’m Esther Kurtz; welcome to Crack Your Creativity, a course from Scribd Coach. In this course, we’ll develop a mindset and process to let your creativity flow. I want to thank all of the creatives out there for joining me today — and yes, I’m talking to you. If you don’t identify as a creative, don’t worry, you’re still in the right place. All of us are creative in some way, and this course will show you how to use your innovative side to transform your mindset.

      Although it can be used to sculpt or write poetry, creativity is more than how you express a talent. It also involves how you approach problem-solving. We use our creativity in practical situations when organizing or finding solutions to issues we have at work. Teachers and parents find creative ways to engage children to get them to complete projects and chores.

      Creativity opens your mind to the bigger picture. Instead of centering your focus on one aspect of a problem, you begin to observe other influential factors that will assist you in finding a solution.

      We all have an imagination that stores our original thoughts. It’s where new ideas, mental images, narratives, and concepts are formed. Our imagination allows us to construct our personal views of the world by pulling from our memory and experiences to fill in knowledge gaps when information is missing from a situation.

      Take detectives for example. They use their imagination when attempting to solve a case. They look at a crime scene and imagine what may have happened, then use their conclusions to filter out suspects to interview. Sometimes the perpetrator is not the most likely suspect. Sure, logic may say this person has the motive, and opportunity to commit the offense, but without imagination, the real perpetrator may get away.

      Detectives have to follow all leads and think of the issue from different angles. Could someone have framed the major suspect, and if so, why? These questions are what any thorough inspector will ask. They have to allow their mind to

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