Creativity john cleese biography review
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A sincere and thoughtful guide to creativity, and a very useful book!
'[A] humorous and practical guide . . .Whether you're hoping to write a novel or paint a masterpiece, you're sure to feel inspired'
A versatile underhållare shares encouraging advice. . . his candour is endearing. An upbeat guide to the creative process.
Wise words on the serious business of being silly.
Drawing on his lifelong experience as a writer, John Cleese shares his insights into the nature of the creative process, and offers advice on how to get your own inventive juices flowing in this humorous and practical guide.
A lovely read that inom was given for Christmas was 'Creativity: A short and cheerful guide' by John Cleese. It's down to earth, easy to read and full of really great insights on how to channel your creativity.
About John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese was born in 1939 in Weston-Super-Mare. He studied Law at Cambridge University and has enjoyed a succe
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LE DeLano Author
My letter “C” pick for this year’s A to Z reading challenge was CREATIVITY: A SHORT AND CHEERFUL GUIDE by John Cleese.
I adore John Cleese. He’s hilarious. He’s innovative. Most of all, he’s utterly brilliant. This book is short but not a page is wasted. Through personal anecdotes (and a bit of research from psychologists), John shows us that yes, you can indeed teach someone how to be creative, or as John puts it, “You can teach people how to create circumstances in which they will become creative.“
John gives great råd for putting you in that creative space, battling writer’s block, putting something, anything down on paper just to get the ball rolling, and realizing that creativity is more than what you’re thinking about in the moment. John firmly believes that your subconscious plays a big part in creativity. He likens it to having a meal, then going about your day whi
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Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
by John Cleese
The central theme of this short book is tapping into your subconscious thoughts for ideas which you can then develop consciously and analytically. Cleese writes, “I began to realize that my unconscious was working on stuff all the time, without my being consciously aware of it.”
SLOW DOWN. Cleese cites a book titled Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less by Guy Claxton. The hare brain “relies on reason and logic, on deliberate conscious thinking.” With the tortoise mind, “we are ruminating or mulling things over.” Claxton says that scientific evidence “shows convincingly that the more patient, less deliberate modes of mind are particularly suited to making sense of situations that are intricate, shadowy, or ill-defined.”
PREVERBAL. “Put simply, you can’t ask your unconscious a question, and expect a direct answer—a neat, tidy little verbal mess