Lucky me, I got to spend a day with the authors at a seminar on Creativity this summer, and they were generous, brilliant and down to earth. Worth reading if you teach or are in education or hav I am completely a nerd when it comes to reading about creativity and thinking. Worth reading if you teach or are in education or have an interest in the subject, great for conversation too!
Nov 25, Audrey rated it liked it. Some interesting ideas about creativity, artistry, and thinking tools patterns, abstraction, analogies, etc. Tends towards the New Age, using phrases like "finding the essence of abstraction" and "no 'right' answers". I discovered some paintings because of the book, and I always like discussions about patterns, so I wasn't unhappy with the book Jun 01, Rebekah rated it really liked it Shelves: artistic.
This book taught me a lot about thinking and creativity. I will certainly use many of the tactics. I felt that the book rambled a bit, however, and some of the later techniques seemed to be very similar to earlier ones. Overall, though, I'm glad I read it. Very helpful if you want to increase your mental capacity and your ability to think creatively. Sep 30, Sang Kim rated it really liked it. A great read to rethink about our ways of thinking.
I found the Body Thinking insightful in that our early training to translate our imaginative feelings into descriptive words may hinder us from understanding how clearly the body speaks. Oct 20, Loree rated it liked it.
Feb 10, Kira rated it liked it. I'm reading this because someone I really respect recommended it. But I am skeptical. May 31, Mohamed Bendary rated it liked it.
I believe the writer has gone too far into analyzing patterns and creating patterns that the reader might have lost the pearls of the book! Feb 12, Edeline Wrigh rated it it was amazing Shelves: creativity. It argues that many of those who have made great contributions to their fields, including Pablo Picasso, Virginia Woolf, Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, and Leonardo Da Vinci were successful not in spite of, but rather because of, their interdisciplinary interests and their ability to transfer types of thinking from one to another.
Students who are taught to approach a discipline with only one type of thinking, then, miss out on opportunities to look at the concepts through different mental lenses and are blinded to insights that are more easily revealed by a method of thinking more traditionally associated with another discipline.
It calls for educators to take a multidisciplinary perspective when discussing a particular topic in the classroom and suggests that unifying language across disciplines would go a long way to assisting students in analogizing concepts between them, allowing them to identify connections and distinctions more easily and achieve a greater level of understanding in all of them as a result.
I enjoyed book largely because it names a particular flaw in our educational system, spends a great deal of time discussing its philosophy and supporting its stance using real-world examples of people who utilized its proposed skills across disciplines, and provides solid advice regarding the kinds of activities that help people become more adept at the kinds of thinking it suggests as well as solid advice regarding the kinds of materials to help facilitate interdisciplinary approaches to topics that come up in class, such as an art teacher that may delve into a variety of art, science, and humanities disciplines to help their students get a feeling for anatomy, movement, aesthetics in different mediums, and ethics as related to their art rather than simply teaching them the basic technical skills behind painting or charcoal.
While that does leave some room for interpretation as to the strength of its argument that the educational system is not currently doing its job, I feel much more comfortable stating that it does a good job of illustrating why developing these different thinking tools is a worthwhile endeavor through its many examples and well-reasoned explanations.
It also generally takes the time to show how engaging in different kinds of activities helps all of those activities. Engaging in storytelling will help a medical doctor empathize with their patients and provide better, more personalized care; engaging in medical diagnostics and treatment will help a person become accustomed to problem-solving that will help allow them to write better stories.
Sparks of Genius proposes a real-world problem, suggests a solution, and unpacks precisely why it views its solution as practical based on a large number of real-world examples. Though it both begins and ends its discussion with ideas regarding the educational system, throughout most of the text the educational system was a background thought if a present thought at all as I found myself more engrossed in the theories backed up with a large amount of interesting, albeit trivia-like information on names I recognized from my studies in biology, physics, literature, art, and music, among others.
Dec 30, A. When I first read the table of contents for this book I was quite excited. It was the first time in all the books I have read where I saw the tools I and others actually use in the act of creating objects and of course ideas, but for me it is mostly objects.
All I could think of is, "This is cool. These people have boiled it down to the essence. The thirteen are described quite well with interesting examples of each. Apply them as you create and you can't help but improve your creative skillset.
Mar 01, Rachel rated it liked it. Not completely the book I was looking for, but if you're an educator I think it could be more useful—it was very anecdotal, which was interesting, just not what I wanted.
Chapters on Abstraction and Analogizing I thought were particularly strong—I understood them as part of the artistic process in a way that I hadn't previously. The same could be said for all the processes described here.
In some ways, the books genius was in making its concepts land as though they had always been perfectly obvio Not completely the book I was looking for, but if you're an educator I think it could be more useful—it was very anecdotal, which was interesting, just not what I wanted.
In some ways, the books genius was in making its concepts land as though they had always been perfectly obvious. Oct 22, Jumana rated it really liked it Shelves: self-improvement , nonfiction , historical-fiction , could-not-finish.
Really interesting concepts in a dense book. If you can wade through the academic writing style, you are likely to find thought provoking ideas and new ways of looking at the world. Overall, worth a read to broaden your mindset and understand the world in a different way. Feb 19, Andrea De santis rated it liked it. The book is interesting, although some of the chapters may not be much, it gives you full and well detailed examples on how the " sparks " have been used throughout history by the best minds of the human kind.
Taking notes of those examples will definitely improve your life. Mar 29, Tom Hunter rated it it was ok. The beginning was good but then this book became extremely obvious.
It gave me the impression of a college term paper, where examples from other authors were just stitched together. Full disclosure: I did not finish the last three chapters. It just became repetitive and lacked any sort of depth. Jan 09, EMP rated it it was ok. Some of the info was interesting, but not well organized somehow. Wouldn't recommend it. Jan 14, max thien added it Shelves: assigned.
Read for Creative Minds; Winter Jan 11, Pete Wung rated it it was amazing. Excellent study of the 13 tools employed by extraordinary people who does extraordinary things. Jan 20, Gry Ranfelt rated it it was ok. This book contains a bunch of wonderful information about the brain, how we learn, different ways to use our brains, how to solve problems and become more creative. The information is solid You'd think it was easy to construct a book with thirteen thinking tools.
Maybe put a page at the end of each chapter summarizing the tasks? Let's sprinkle them across the chapter so that, if you didn't have the foresight to highlight them in your first read, you'll ha This book contains a bunch of wonderful information about the brain, how we learn, different ways to use our brains, how to solve problems and become more creative.
Let's sprinkle them across the chapter so that, if you didn't have the foresight to highlight them in your first read, you'll have to reread to find them. Also, let's have an entire chapter with no obvious tasks and write at the end "you can use any of the methods mentioned in this chapter to enhance this skill". It was not well structured, and though there was a lot of great information I felt like a lot of it was info-dump, like the authors just really wanted to share one more story, one more proof of how knowledgeable they are in all the fields.
Mostly it felt like a good chunk of butter was spread out on a very, very, VERY large bread, and, sorry, but I like a thicker layer of butter on my bread. I recommend reading it, but I recommend even more finding a good summary of it. Now off to make my own summary with all the highlights. Apr 01, Caitlin rated it it was amazing. This was the main text for a class about creativity that I took a couple of semesters ago.
It's divided into sections focusing on specific attributes of creativity, such as inspiration or playfulness. Each section is full of fascinating quotes and anecdotes about great thinkers, scientists, and artists at work. This book manages to discuss creativity in concrete, specific terms without reducing the mysterious side of it. It is inspiring. Unfortunately, it is written from a secular perspective, w This was the main text for a class about creativity that I took a couple of semesters ago.
Unfortunately, it is written from a secular perspective, which means that it completely overlooks what is to me the most vital element of creativity- God's creative energy, which suffuses the universe and is the ultimate source of man's creative efforts.
But 'even a blind hog can root up an acorn,' and this book still manages to find wisdom about a particularly tricky subject. What a ride. Finally finished this after a year and more. A better review coming soon. Jun 26, adllto rated it liked it Shelves: ologies , general. A curious book as the authors explore the roots of genius. The 13 tools in the subtitle are observing, imaging, abstracting, recognizing patterns, forming patterns, analogizing, "body thinking," empathizing, dimensional thinking, modeling, playing, transforming, and synthesizing.
The book is a heavy read telling the stories of important creative and innovative people. I found some of the 13 tools active in myself but noticed the absence of others perhaps that is the strength of the book's analys A curious book as the authors explore the roots of genius.
I found some of the 13 tools active in myself but noticed the absence of others perhaps that is the strength of the book's analysis is that these 13 thinking tools can be learned. Jan 20, fc7reads rated it did not like it Shelves: textbooks. This book was required reading for a course I took. I did not like it. I thought it was pompous and self-aggrandizing. Apr 01, Barbara rated it it was amazing. Creativity with solid examples of how creative people think is right on topic.
I took a long time reading this book and want to read it again so I can talk better about it. And there is a synthesis of concepts at the end with a plan of action for the world of educators. I couldn't agree more.
Aug 31, Brian rated it really liked it. There are some portions that are pretty hard to wade through, but the last chapter really redeemed it for me. Jan 30, Marvin Corea rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: wants to be more creative and use more of their brain. Mar 30, Rhonda added it. A HIGHLY inspirational book, for me, quantifying and substantiating the things I have been doing mostg of my life, as worthwhile and useful.
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