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Presents a collection of essays reflecting the author's passionate engagement with compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor, from evolution and creativity to memory and consciousness.

Messiness adds benefits to our lives, so why do we resist the concept so? Harford uses research from neuroscience, psychology and social science to explain why disorder, confusion, and disarray are actually what lies at the core of how we innovate, how we achieve, how we reach each other. He shows that the human inclination for tidiness can mask a deep and debilitating fragility that keep us from innovation.

Offers advice and encouragement to help readers foster creativity and be artistically productive in a wide variety of endeavors.

"An inspirational guide that helps professionals spark creativity day in and day out. Avoid burnout and inspire your creativity with this daily reader that pushes you to feel energized and ready for innovation! The Daily Creative is a daily reader for professionals no matter their creativity level. Each reading is designed to improve focus and achieve their goals. Every reading centers around a specific theme, takes under 5 minutes to complete, includes...

Are you ready to step up and soar into your highest and best? Here is the key to fully accessing and activating your courage, creativity and curiosity as you expand your capacity for love and joy in all aspects of your life.Now that you have healed old emotional wounds with the Nurturing Your Inner Child program, you're ready to unleash those powerful and beautiful aspects of the child that you were born with, to take your self help motivation to...

One of the country's leading literary scholars explores the fascinating question of why some people's creative talents flourish with age while others' fade. America grows older yet stays focused on its young. Whatever hill we try to climb, we're "over" it by fifty and should that hill involve entertainment or athletics we're finished long before. And if younger is better, it doesn't appear that youngest is best: we want our teachers, doctors, generals,...

Summary, Analysis & Review of Tim Harford's Messy by Instaread Preview: Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford is a researched consideration of the virtues of unorganized, diversified, and otherwise untidy systems in different aspects of life. One of the benefits of messy situations and distracting environments is that they fuel creative work. Unexpected obstacles arising from messy situations can force creative people...

This interactive guide is filled with classroom-tested, low-cost DIY makerspace projects and challenges to inspire creativity and foster imagination in makers at every skill level. Features dozens of classroom-tested, hands-on DIY projects and challenges. Each project features non-technical step-by-step instructions with photos and illustrations to ensure success, expand the imagination, and foster innovation. You will explore recyclables hacks, smartphone...

What do you do with a problem? Especially one that follows you around and doesn't seem to be going away? Do you worry about it? Ignore it? Do you run and hide from it? This is the story of a persistent problem and the child who isn't so sure what to make of it. The longer the problem is avoided, the bigger it seems to get. But when the child finally musters up the courage to face it, the problem turns out to be something quite different than it appeared....

Dancing with the Muse in Old Age uses current science to present old age as a potentially happy, creative, and productive time. Numerous models-including many elders active in the arts-illustrate the possibilities.