{"product_id":"kickstart-creativity-isbn-9780593137703","title":"Kickstart Creativity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBust through creative blocks and ignite innovative problem-solving with this toolkit for creative experimentation featuring 50 prompt cards.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat if finding inspiration was merely a matter of gazing through a different lens or trying out a new tool? \u003ci\u003eKickstart Creativity\u003c\/i\u003e is a deck of 50 cards—each with a creative exercise—designed to prompt unexpected ways of thinking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the start of a personal challenge or work project, draw three cards from this deck and reflect on how the spread relates to your current situation. Choose an \u003ci\u003eaction\u003c\/i\u003e card to learn a new skill, a \u003ci\u003eperspective\u003c\/i\u003e card to see the world in a novel way, and an \u003ci\u003eintention\u003c\/i\u003e card to influence more meaningful and mindful choices. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKickstart Creativity\u003c\/i\u003e can be used by individuals or by groups of teachers, students, co-workers, and other collaborators as an antidote to creative block. With insights from trailblazing rule-breakers and cultural philosophies from bygone eras, \u003ci\u003eKickstart Creativity\u003c\/i\u003e will shift your attention away from the pressure of productivity and toward the path to creative freedom.\u003cb\u003eBonnie Smith Whitehouse, Ph.D.,\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at Belmont University and the author of \u003ci\u003eAfoot and Lighthearted: A Journal for Mindful Walking\u003c\/i\u003e. She specializes in the flourishing field of writing studies, where she gives writers opportunities for freedom, authenticity, and discovery by emphasizing process and experimentation over product. Bonnie seeks to help others cultivate creativity, well-being, and peace by prompting them to engage thoughtfully and contemplatively with themselves, the natural world, and the technologies that shape our lives.\u003cb\u003eKICKSTART CREATIVITY IS FOR YOU IF YOU’RE PREPARED TO:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e TRUST THE CREATIVE PROCESS. Ideas need time to grow and develop. When you set your dreams and endeavors aside to incubate, it may not seem like any creative movement is happening. But while you ponder a new concept or intention, you’ll find that new insights reveal themselves in unexpected moments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePURSUE DISRUPTION. Despite what legend and lore has led so many of us to believe, the creative process is not really all that mysterious. Getting stuck or needing a spark of inspiration is all part of the deal. Take a disruptive (a productive!) break with Kickstart Creativity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePROCEED ONWARD! One of the best-kept secrets for creatives and problem solvers is what Einstein called combinatory play, the act of opening up one mental channel by dabbling in a completely different activity; for example, Einstein would play the violin when he got stuck on a math problem. By using these cards to take imaginative leaps forward and to connect dissimilar dots, Kickstart Creativity gives you specific strategies for moving toward your visions, hopes, and dreams. Especially in this wild, wooly, and sometimes cruel world, all human beings deserve a little time and space to explore their creative potential. If we want to create a better future for ourselves and for generations yet to come, we need all imaginations engaged and all hands on deck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBE OPEN. BE DETERMINED. BE FEARLESS.","brand":"Clarkson Potter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302591549669,"sku":"NP9780593137703","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593137703.jpg?v=1767730699","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/kickstart-creativity-isbn-9780593137703","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}