Creative Doing: 75 Practical Exercises to Unblock Your Creative Potential in Your Work, Hobby, or Next Career

by Herbert Lui (Editor)

Overview

Have you ever felt frustrated, blocked, or unable to make progress on a creative pursuit? Or felt that your creative potential may not be realized in your work?

This book was written to honor and support the emerging artist and creative. Driven by a desire to uncover the mystery of the creative process, writer Herbert Lui spent a decade researching and in conversation with practicing artists and creatives of all kinds.

What emerged is this elegant collection of exercises, mental models, and true stories that help you develop your own creative process, from choosing material to sharing your work with the world. Creative Doing is often counterintuitive, prompting you to try one thing, and then its opposite, or pushing you to "sell out" as you experiment with creative purpose.

The techniques apply to writers, painters, designers, musicians, digital creatives, producers, consultants, or anyone who wishes to develop a consistent creative habit. You might be...

wanting to tap into your creativity to find new solutions in your full-time work

exploring a creative hobby outside of your day job

leaving or considering leaving a job to focus on new creative work.

The 75 practical techniques in this book support you as you learn to turn your vaguest impulses into true expression.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781952120459
Publisher:	Holloway, Inc.
Publication date:	05/09/2022
Pages:	130
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Herbert Lui is an editorial director and author. He has been writing since he was 15. His work has appeared at publications like Fast Company, Hypebeast, and Quartz, and he later joined Lifehacker as a staff writer. His company Wonder Shuttle has advised organizations such as the City of Toronto, Shopify, and Skillshare on their writing and publications. He writes the Best of Books newsletter, which shares three great books every month.

Editorial Reviews

"The myth of creative genius is that it's innate and destined for some, and completely inaccessible to others. Creative Doing goes behind the curtains on the creative process, examining the lives and processes of creative practitioners, and providing a valuable guide to unblocking creativity through taking action, making lots of work, and uncovering your creative purpose." -- LAURA HUANG (International bestselling author, "EDGE" and professor at Harvard Business School)

"Any one of Herbert Lui's inspired yet down-to-earth prompts has the potential to get you unstuck and to reconnect to the energy that fuels meaningful productivity. But to have so many collected in one place makes them even more powerful: somewhere, here, is the remedy for almost any creative block you might encounter. I know I'll be returning to Creative Doing again and again." -- OLIVER BURKEMAN (New York Times bestselling author, "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals")

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