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Draw First and Think Later for Limitless Creativity! What is Doodle Thinking? Doodle Thinking taps into the natural process of creative thinking using both sides of your brain. Train your inner creative genius to be more comfortable with ambiguity and unleash your inner creativity. Who is Doodle Thinking for? Doodle Thinking is for everyone! By building your creative muscles, Doodle Thinking helps your kids, your friend's kids and YOU (yes, I mean it.) unlock your inner creativity to help you become an original thinker and creative doer. How does it work? Elephants, apples and your dream playground...You can imagine and create anything from any random shapes. Creativity is about making connections. Doodle Thinking helps you connect the dots between your creative brain and logical brain. Draw random shapes and turn them into something you've dreamed of. Forget about staying in the lines and just follow your creativity. See how the simple act of Doodle Thinking can unlock creativity. About the book: At 8" x 8" -- the book is just large enough to inspire while being easily portable for on-the-go creative thinking Contains 60 fun-filled doodling and coloring pages using random shape challenges and creative doodles inspired from my journey through parenthood Challenge yourself with ambiguous random shapes that tickle your creativity and also see how they inspired me Tap into your creative thinking and then color, cut and frame your masterpiece!

There is NO SUCH THING as a mindless doodle What did Einstein, JFK, Edison, Marie Curie, and Henry Ford have in common? They were all inveterate doodlers. These powerhouse minds knew instinctively that doodling is deep thinking in disguise-a simple, accessible, and dynamite tool for innovating and solving even the stickiest problems. Sunni Brown's mission is to bring the power of the Doodle to the rest of us. She leads the Revolution defying all those parents, teachers, and bosses who say Stop doodling! Get serious! Grow up! She overturns misinformation about doodling, demystifies visual thinking, and shows us the power of applying our innate visual literacy. She'll teach you how to doodle any object, concept, or system imaginable, shift habitual thinking patterns, and transform boring text into displays that can engage any audience. Sunni Brown was named one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business" and one of the "10 Most Creative People on Twitter" by Fast Company. She is founder of a creative consultancy, an international speaker, the co-author of Gamestorming, and the leader of a global campaign for visual literacy called The Doodle Revolution. Her TED Talk on doodling has drawn more than a million views on TED.com. Her work on visual literacy and gaming has been featured in over 35 nationally-syndicated news programs and reported on in The Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, the BBC, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, etc. She lives in Keep Austin Weird, Texas.

Doodling is fun. But it also a very creative game that allows doodlers to engage and expand their imagination since with doodling; it is only what you draw that matters, not how well you draw it.

Rethink the Way You Think In hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. But how can you be the person who comes up with those ideas? In this revised and expanded edition of his groundbreaking Thinkertoys, creativity expert Michael Michalko reveals life-changing tools that will help you think like a genius. From the linear to the intuitive, this comprehensive handbook details ingenious creative-thinking techniques for approaching problems in unconventional ways. Through fun and thought-provoking exercises, you’ll learn how to create original ideas that will improve your personal life and your business life. Michalko’s techniques show you how to look at the same information as everyone else and see something different. With hundreds of hints, tricks, tips, tales, and puzzles, Thinkertoys will open your mind to a world of innovative solutions to everyday and not-so-everyday problems.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine the power of three pictures at a time. Which is exactly what former graphic designer turned teacher Ben Keeling has done. As thought provoking as it is simple, this book combines an expert knowledge of schools and learning, an enviable talent for graphic design and a keen sense of irony.