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The Top 14 Books About Creativity
1. Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights – Gary Klein 2. The Courage to Create – Rollo May 3. The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice – Todd Henry 4. The Creativity Question – Albert Rothenberg (Editor), Carl R. Hausman (Editor) 5.
- Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights – Gary Klein
- The Courage to Create – Rollo May
- The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice – Todd Henry
- The Creativity Question – Albert Rothenberg (Editor), Carl R. Hausman (Editor)
- Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment – George Leonard
- Creativity:Flowand the Psychology of Discovery and Invention – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- A Technique for Producing Ideas – James Webb Young
- On the Shoulders of Giants – Stephen Hawking
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration – Amy Wallace and Edwin Catmull
- Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step – Edward de Bono
- Chase, Chance, and Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty – James H. Austin
- Mastery– Robert Greene
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World – Adam Grant
- Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking – Daniel Dennett
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