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Expect the Unexpected Or You Won't Find It
The bestselling author of ""A Whack on the Side of the Head"" now interprets the aphorisms of Heraclitus as springboards to creativity.
The Creative Contrarian
Tackle your thorniest problems using the Wise Fool’s savvy Strategies! The Wise Fool is the archetypal contrarian known for his creativity, irreverence, and humor. He looks at life in unorthodox ways and pushes back against the status quo. Throughout history, powerful decision-makers (Egyptian pharaohs, Chinese emperors, Persian sultans, and European kings) consulted Wise Fools to question the assumptions that kept them mired in stale and obsolete solutions. In The Creative Contrarian, best-selling author (A Whack on the Side of the Head), speaker, and toy designer (Ball of Whacks) Dr. Roger von Oech provides readers with a fully-illustrated “Wise Fool Guide” to challenge established p...
A Whack on the Side of the Head
The hugely bestselling creativity classic with “lasting appeal,” A Whack on the Side of the Head is now available in an updated and revised edition, inspiring readers to unlock their creative thinking with thought-provoking examples, famous historical anecdotes, mind-bending puzzles, and so much more (New York Times)! For more than four decades, A Whack on the Side of the Head has been a consistent leader in stimulating creativity and innovation. Translated into over twenty languages, Roger von Oech’s bestselling classic is back—and better than ever! Completely revised, enlarged, and supercharged with new ideas, this definitive edition offers more stories and exercises to bring its famous innovation boosters to a new generation. Learn how to overcome the ten biggest mental locks and unleash your full creative potential. Use the four roles of the creative process—Explorer, Artist, Judge, and Warrior—to generate and apply new ideas. Exploit the power of discontinuity, constraints, and “playing the Wise Fool” to find the “second right answer”!
Roger Von Oech's Ball of Whacks
More fun than a brainteaser, more versatile than a puzzle, and an ideal tool to stimulate innovators, artists, engineers, writers, and students, the "Ball of Whacks" comes with an illustrated 96-page booklet that provides exercises for creative brainstorming and problem-solving.
Tog on Software Design
Do you need a break from all the code - intensive, heavily technical books you usually pour over? Interface visionary Bruce & "Tog & " Tognazziniwill refocus your sights on the horizon with an eye - opening view of how the computer and communication industries together are poised to transform our home, education, and work lives. This readable book offers revealing, provocative, and sometimes controversial insights on a broad sampling of technology topics from quality management to the meaning of standards. Taken together, these insights furnish a forward - looking blueprint for successful software development for the future.
Universal Human
"The author of the legendary #1 New York Times bestseller The Seat of the Soul shows us step-by-fascinating-step how to create a life of love and where that now leads"--
Rewrite Your Life
“A step-by-step guide for writers struggling to create fiction from their life . . . delivers on its promise with such honesty, simplicity, and beauty.”—William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author According to common wisdom, we all have a book inside of us. But how do we select and then write our most significant story—the one that helps us to evolve and invites pure creativity into our lives? In Rewrite Your Life, creative writing professor, sociologist, and popular fiction author Jess Lourey guides you through the redemptive process of writing a healing novel that recycles and transforms your most precious resources—your own emotions and experiences. This fact-to-fict...
Creativity Revealed
Why do some people seem more creative than others? How do brilliant minds gain key card access to unexplained depths of power and illumination while others struggle simply to choose a tie? Studies have demonstrated that creativity isnt necessarily linked with intelligence, yet our most profound philosophers and academic minds have yet to crack the creative genius code. Until now. The most current research into the nature of consciousnessour sense of existencehas shed new insight into and sparked provocative discussion on the origins of creative genius and the ideal conditions for channeling heightened creativity.
Ball of Whacks - Black
30 black magnetic pyramids click together to create a rhombic triacontahedron (it's easier to make than it is to say ) one of the most perfect geometric shapes. Each individual piece of the Ball of Whacksƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚ is a "golden ratio" rhombic pyramid. Held in place by 180 rare earth magnets, the design pieces can be formed into any shape you can imagine. The Ball of Whacks comes with a 96-page illustrated creativity guidebook that provides you with tips, inspiration, mental exercises, and insights into the creative process. Among its many awards, the Ball of Whacksƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚ was voted "Best Desk Top Toy" by Fat Brain Toys. This new black Ball of Whacks is a perfect corporate gift. Give one to every stressed exec you know Available in Red, Blue, Black, and Multi-Color. Get all four
