5 books to help you think out of the box and boost your creativity
Reading is one of many ways where we can get inspired to look for creative solutions to our everyday problems. That’s also valid when you’re running your own business and feel stuck, not knowing how to move forward.
For that reason, in today’s article, we’re giving you 5 books to help you think out of the box and boost your creativity.
1. The Creative Thinking Handbook, by Chris Griffiths and Melina Costi
This is a book that talks about how we need to identify and remove the “box” around our thinking, so we can unlock unlimited streams of creativity for professional and business success.
The writers walk you through an individual, step-by-step plan to help you improve your creative problem-solving abilities so you can make better judgments. The Creative Thinking Handbook, based on extensive analysis and testing of the creative thinking process, aids you in coming up with more creative ideas and amazing solutions for any work-related problem.
2. Think Like Da Vinci, by Michael Gelb
One of the finest brains the world has ever known, it is safe to say, is Leonardo Da Vinci. In addition to being an artist, he was also a mathematician, engineer, inventor, and architect, not to mention a few of his other accomplishments. Among the many inventions, he is credited with creating are the first helicopter and parachute.
Think Like Da Vinci looks at each of the seven ideas Da Vinci lived by to help you develop your own brilliance via a series of practical exercises. Da Vinci credited his incredible creative output to these principles.
3. The Element, by Ken Robinson
The Element is the intersection of inherent skill and individual enthusiasm. People are at their most creative, motivated, and productive when they first arrive at the Element. He demonstrates that age and occupation are no barrier and that this is the crucial tactic for transforming education, business, and communities in the twenty-first century by drawing on the stories of a diverse range of people, including Paul McCartney, Matt Groening, Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, and Bart Conner.
Ken Robinson examines the circumstances that allow us to discover ourselves in the Element and those that prevent it with a dry sense of humour.
4. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman, by Richard P. Feynman
An autobiography of the physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman. He was a clever man who found solutions to some of the trickiest issues of his day. This book tells the story of his intriguing and extraordinary exploits, from learning how to open safes, researching and behaviour, to, performing in Brazil.
Surely You’re Joking, tells a different story in each chapter and every tale contains a potent lesson for innovators.
5. Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning, often known as MSFM, is an autobiography of Viktor E. Frankl’s use of his “Logotherapy” theory, which is considered his trademark notion. In Vienna, Austria, before the onset of Nazi aggression, he started developing this idea, which holds that discovering meaning and purpose in life is the key to one’s pleasure and well-being.
Frankl then applied his theory to his own life when he was imprisoned for three years. First in a Nazi ghetto and subsequently in Nazi concentration camps. This is where this theory came in handy, when he used it, to comfort himself and his fellow captives. It’s a book with great reflections that can really change the way you think.
Books are a great way to develop ideas, come up with different solutions and improve our creativity. The more you read, the better you are able to connect the dots and discover patterns.
Here at Edventures, we want to create a world where every idea is possible, so every time you get a new insight from a book, you’ll be able to make it come true.
