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• Title:Too fast to think : how to reclaim your creativity in a hyper-connected work culture / Chris Lewis.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lewis, Chris, 1961- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Kogan Page, 2016.
  

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  • Call Number: BF408 .L623 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Creative ability.
  Psychology, Industrial.
  
• Edition:1st Edition.
  
• Description:xv, 212 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Exposing current work environments and practices, Too Fast to Think argues that these two elements are detrimental to and block creativity from flourishing. Employees are too busy, too overloaded with constant information, and too focused on analytical left brain thinking to allow for diffuse thinking, which is usually when creativity can flow uninterrupted and where the best ideas emerge. Author Chris Lewis promotes a model that re-balances left and right brain thinking, takes a holistic approach to the process of thoughts (including emotional thinking and wellbeing), and promotes eight traits that are inherently linked to creation and innovation. Supported by the latest research he teaches how to retrain the brain into allowing creative ideas to emerge, before being shut down by constant interruptions and self-doubts"-- Provided by publisher.
  "Our lives are getting faster and faster. We are engulfed in constant distraction from email, social media and our 'always on' work culture. We are too busy, too overloaded with information and too focused on analytical left-brain thinking processes to be creative. Too Fast to Think exposes how our current work practices, media culture and education systems are detrimental to innovation. The speed and noise of modern life is undermining the clarity and quiet that is essential to power individual thought. Our best ideas are often generated when we are free to think diffusely, in an uninterrupted environment, which is why moments of inspiration so often occur in places completely separate to our offices. To reclaim creativity, Too Fast to Think teaches you how to retrain your brain into allowing creative ideas to emerge, before they are shut down by interruption, distraction or the self-doubt of your over-rational brain. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to maximize their creative potential, as well as that of their team. Supported by cutting-edge research from the University of the Arts London and insightful interviews with business leaders, academics, artists, politicians and psychologists, Chris Lewis takes a holistic approach to explain the 8 crucial traits that are inherently linked to creation and innovation"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• ISBN:9780749478865 (paperback)
  0749478861 (paperback)
  9780749478872 (E-ISBN)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 01. information overload and the way It's changing us
  scale of the overload
  Disproportionate effect of overload on millennial adults
  How overload is changing the media
  How news is changing
  How the world is actually getting better
  No information is correlated with `nothing happening'
  Disproportionate effect of overload on women
  Conclusion
  02. How did we allow ourselves to become so overloaded?
  Competition and confidence
  What are the problems in the system?
  What should education be trying to do?
  Two worlds, still too far apart
  How it can be different
  Art used in science
  Conclusion
  03. `always on' environment and its effect
  Understanding the Type A
  meeting
  greeting
  Office layouts
  Conclusion
  04. Your brain and how to use it
  What you are capable of
  impact of overload on the structures
  left-brain process
  right-brain process
  left and right in history and culture
  So is the left brain, right brain a dead end?
  awkward interview
  boring presentation
  When things go wrong: the link between creativity, mental illness and depression
  Flow and pulse: the way to sustainable creativity
  Conclusion
  05. Sleep matters
  link between technology and sleep
  role of light
  link between technology and general well-being
  Conclusion
  06. Where great ideas come from
  `to-do list' versus the `to-be list'
  sense of flow
  big inhibitors
  Fear
  Mastery and failure
  power of art
  Truth, beauty and aesthetics
  Conclusion
  07. Generating better ideas
  Generating better ideas: It's all about you
  Eight Creative Traits (QED3RPT)
  Generating better ideas: It's all about others
  Training principles
  So, what else do you need to know?
  Taking others into the zone
  Rise Academy at LEWIS
  Rise Four I's Creative Cycle
  Conclusion
  08. How leaders apply creativity
  business success that doesn't understand business
  Fighter
  outsider's insider
  unlikely CEO
  `You can't polish a turd'
  Expelled for reading too much
  Just your average cat-breeding, stargazing, portrait-painting, military reservist politician
  Complete focus
  power of logic and emotion in leading the Royal Navy
  Conclusion.