Book Review: <i>Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life </i> by Shelley Carson, Ph.D.
The world’s greatest creations all have their beginnings in a three-pound object: The human brain.
Like a supercomputer adapting to ever-changing environments, understanding subtle patterns and making connections, the human brain is a miracle machine. But it is our creativity that separates us from other species, such as the turtle, which hardly changed at all in over 200 million years
Your Creative Brain shows how to expand the marvelous human brain from ordinary problem solving to great creative skill. Carson’s concept of creativity recognizes a creative idea or product needs to be novel or original, and has to be useful or adaptive. We should be able to apply these elements to any aspect of life to increase our productivity and happiness.
Helen Gallagher
