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Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Meet Your Creative Brain | p. 1 |
Wanted: Your Creative Brain | p. 3 |
Why activating your creativity is important to individual and societal well-being | |
Your Mental Comfort Zone | p. 13 |
Introduction to the seven brainsets | |
Fun quizzes to determine which brainset is your mental comfort zone | |
Tour Your Creative Brain | p. 39 |
Brief introduction to the parts of brain that are important to the creative process | |
Brainsets and the Creative Process | p. 55 |
Description of the stages that comprise both the deliberate and the spontaneous creative process | |
Training Your Creative Brain | p. 71 |
Opening the Mind: Accessing the Absorb Brainset | p. 73 |
Access externally and internally generated information with an uncritical eye | |
Imagining the Possibilities: Accessing the Envision Brainset | p. 103 |
Use the power of mental imagery to construct creative ideas | |
Thinking Divergently: Accessing the Connect Brainset | p. 123 |
Associate novel information to produce a multitude of ideas | |
Shaping the Creative Idea: Accessing the Reason Brainset | p. 155 |
Consciously work through a creative "problem" | |
Recognizing Useful Ideas: Accessing the Evaluate Brainset | p. 181 |
Evaluate creative ideas for appropriateness | |
Using Emotion Creatively: Accessing the Transform Brainset | p. 207 |
Put your negative emotions to work for you | |
Performing Creatively: Accessing the Stream Brainset | p. 233 |
Practice skill-appropriate improvisation | |
Putting the CREATES Strategies to Work | p. 257 |
Flexing Your Creative Brain | p. 259 |
Exercises for switching between brainsets to enhance cognitive flexibility | |
Applying the Brainsets to Real-World Creativity | p. 279 |
Tips for using the brainsets in all stages of the creative process | |
Appendixes | p. 293 |
How to Score the CREATES Brainsets Assessment | p. 293 |
The Token Economy System | p. 305 |
The Daily Activities Calendar | p. 309 |
Notes | p. 311 |
References | p. 339 |
About the Author | p. 357 |
About Harvard Medical School | p. 358 |
Index | p. 359 |
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