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Fundamentals of Creativity. Introduction of basic concepts and approaches regarding creativity
Document from the year 2017 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: 2,3, University of Malta (Edward de Bono Institute), course: Research Methods, language: English, abstract: In regard of creativity in various scientific disciplines, there are plenty approaches and theories, each adding new dimensions, meanings of the term creativity or perspectives on the creativity approach towards the discussion, what creativity is, how it can be approached, measured and enhanced (von Wissel, 2012). The individual theories differ in different dimensions, e.g. focusing on creative geniuses and everyday creativity or paying attention to different aspects of creativity (for example the 4 Ps) in particular (Kozbelt, Beghetto and Runco, 2010). However, for the sake of complexity reduction and the forced investigation of psychological issues regarding creativity, especially concepts of the field of psychology should be taken in regard for this work. Namely the authors deal with three concepts of creativity that shaped the psychological discussion around it for the last years and can add to the foundations of their own research. [...]
Can Music Make You Sick?
“Musicians often pay a high price for sharing their art with us. Underneath the glow of success can often lie loneliness and exhaustion, not to mention the basic struggles of paying the rent or buying food. Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave raise important questions – and we need to listen to what the musicians have to tell us about their working conditions and their mental health.” Emma Warren (Music Journalist and Author). “Singing is crying for grown-ups. To create great songs or play them with meaning music's creators reach far into emotion and fragility seeking the communion we demand of it. However, music’s toll on musicians can leave deep scars. In this important book, Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave investigate the relationship between the wellbeing music brings to society and the wellbeing of those who create. It’s a much needed reality check, deglamorising the romantic image of the tortured artist.” Crispin Hunt (Multi-Platinum Songwriter/Record Producer, Chair of the Ivors Academy). It is often assumed that creative people are prone to psychological instability, and that this explains apparent associations between cultural production and mental health problems. In their detailed study of recording and performing artists in the British music industry, Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave turn this view on its head. By listening to how musicians understand and experience their working lives, this book proposes that whilst making music is therapeutic, making a career from music can be traumatic. The authors show how careers based on an all-consuming passion have become more insecure and devalued. Artistic merit and intimate, often painful, self-disclosures are the subject of unremitting scrutiny and data metrics. Personal relationships and social support networks are increasingly bound up with calculative transactions. Drawing on original empirical research and a wide-ranging survey of scholarship from across the social sciences, their findings will be provocative for future research on mental health, wellbeing and working conditions in the music industries and across the creative economy. Going beyond self-help strategies, they challenge the industry to make transformative structural change. Until then, the book provides an invaluable guide for anyone currently making their career in music, as well as those tasked with training and educating the next generation.
A Man of High Character
The call of a Christian is to aim for righteousness, yet so few of us ask, “What is right? What is the ideal that we ought to aim for?”Ecclesiastes states there is a time for all things: “A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing…a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.” Yet, it is a rare man who will dare to ask, “When should I love and when should I hate? When should I forgive and when should I go to war?” Most prefer the simplicity of always choosing one, but the Christian is committed to pursuing righteousness.This book is a fierce dive into the depths of righteousness. It is not for those who prefer simplicity and easy living, but for those who are willing to bear the responsibility of righteousness.
The Psychology of Becoming a Successful Worker
What is success at work and why is it important? How do top workers describe their success? How can work, community, leadership, family, or home and school promote success? Success at work is often associated with career-oriented individuals who sacrifice other areas of life to achieve highly in the workplace, but success can also be defined in other ways. It can consist of feelings of knowledge, competence and accomplishment, stemming from an inner drive to work well and create an expression of mastery. This book focuses on employees who have been rewarded for their skills and expertise. Based on the authors’ in-depth research into the phenomenon of success at work, this book provides a positive human-strength based approach to success and offers a fresh viewpoint to the modern, demanding and hectic work life. Drawing from the theory of positive psychology and outlining new theoretical ideas including work motivation, career orientation, work characteristics, and positive states of work, success is described as a combination of multiple elements which include other areas of life. The book is illustrated throughout with case studies from employees, and it will ignite thoughts about what success at work is and can be, and how to recognize factors which enhance or hinder success in varying contexts. Considering a variety of data, this book will appeal to researchers and academics from the fields of work and organisational psychology, positive psychology, career counselling and coaching.
Think Again
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERIf you can change your mind you can do anything.Why do we refresh our wardrobes every year, renovate our kitchens every decade, but never update our beliefs and our views? Why do we laugh at people using computers that are ten years old, but yet still cling to opinions we formed ten years ago?There's a new skill for the modern world that matters more than raw intelligence - the ability to change your mind. To have the edge we all need to develop the flexibility to unlearn old beliefs and adapt when the evidence and the world changes before us.Told through fascinating stories, informed by cutting-edge research and illustratedwith amazing insights from Adam Grant's conversations with people such as Elon Musk, Hilary Clinton's campaign team, top CEOs and leading scientists, this is the ultimate guide to keeping your thinking fresh, learning when to question your ideas and update your own opinions, and how to inspire those around you to do the same.
The Culture Map
An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this "enlightening" (Foreign Affairs) and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.
Safety Cultures, Safety Models
The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already travelled, their context, objectives and constraints. What link can be established between safety culture and safety models in order to increase safety within companies carrying out dangerous activities? First, while the term “safety culture” is widely shared among the academic and industrial world, it leads to various interpretations and therefore different positioning when it comes to assess, improve or change it. Many safety theories, concepts, and models coexist today, being more or less appealing and/or directly useful to the industry. How, and based on which criteria, to choose from the available options? These are some of the questions addressed in this book, which benefits from the expertise of its worldwide famous authors in several industrial sectors.
Leadership Mindset 2.0
Winner of three Book of the Year awards * 1st Place – 2023 Goody Business Book Awards –Think Differently Category * 1st Place – 2023 NABE Pinnacle Book Awards – Business Category * 1st Place – 2023 IPA Press Awards – Leadership Category A Shortcut To Natural, Effective, and Engaging Leadership That Any Leader Can Use To Improve Their Results Fast Leadership Mindset 2.0 is the seemingly counterintuitive, yet most effective approach to quickly becoming a top-tier leader. The kind of leader that is truly confident, strategically effective, and creates highly engaged, skilled, and productive teams in any organization lucky enough to have them. Better yet, this leadership “system” empowers leaders to do all of this WITHOUT unsustainable, unhealthy, or unethical bully tactics, micromanaging, or 24/7 work schedules. These are the same tools and techniques that organizations like Uber, Microsoft, Stanford University, and PwC have been hiring Michael to teach their top executives for years. It's all been simplified everything into an incredibly affordable, focused, and actionable book any aspiring or current leader can pick up and start using in a single sitting. Here's a snapshot of what's in the book; ✔️ The truth about what your team wants and truly needs from you, what they don't, and why what you're doing now is training them to underperform ✔️ The huge mistake nearly every leader makes when trying to look authentic and confident, and what the thousands of leaders are doing instead ✔️ A critical formula to successfully having difficult conversations with anyone (handy graphic included) ✔️ The true definition of "imposter syndrome," why it's massively common and highly driven people, and how you can immediately overcome it - permanently! ✔️ How to make yourself "Senior Leader Ready," giving you the natural ability to have strategic conversations and earn the trust of high-level leaders without faking it or feeling out of place ✔️ Why everything you know about thinking and acting more strategically is wrong and the ridiculously simple solution you can use immediately ✔️ Case studies that prove how this approach works in any leadership role, in any country, in any industry - and with any leader, no matter what your natural disposition ✔️ The little-known neuroscience trick that can transform you into a confident, connected, empathetic leader - in literally the speed of thought ✔️ Learn the secret hack that top CEOs use to manage their stress and energy and keep themselves at the top of their game ✔️ Uncover the number one blind spot that almost every leader has that causes them to self-sabotage, lose confidence and keep themselves stuck - and what you need to overcome it right now “This fast-moving, practical book shows you how to unlock your full potential for success, achievement, and unlimited income in a fast-moving world of greater competition. You learn how to get more done, faster than ever before.” -Brian TracyNew York Times Best-Selling Author "Leadership Mindset 2.0 will take you from good to great for your job, team and company! Packed with actionable steps to start implementing today and R. Michael Anderson's profound knowledge as Social Entrepreneur of the Year, this is the book to read for every leader." -Dr. Marshall GoldsmithThe Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author Pick up your copy of Leadership Mindset 2.0 now.
The Ten Day Masters
Who You Are at the Most Fundamental Level Being the most important reference point for BaZi analysis, The Day Master represents the true essence of your character and personality traits, and signifies your qualities, quirks, strengths and weaknesses. Joey Yap's BaZi Essentials Series divides the 10 Day Masters into individual mini book where each of their traits in terms of Character, Career, Relationships and Wealth are explored. Understand who you are truly and let your personality thrive.Find out your Day Master for FREE!What You`ll Learn•Understand what you are on the exterior - your personality or character traits that are visible to everyone•Discover the hidden, sometimes buried, side of you•Deepen your understanding on your basic nature and character•Know how you'll act from a business, wealth, and relationship point of viewChapter HighlightsPart One: CharacterExplore your character based on your personality, thinking and judgement and self-confidence.Part Two: CareerGet a low down on your business acumen, business personality and leadership skill.Part Three: RelationshipHow you behave around your friends and colleagues could be determined by your Day Master. Find out here.Part Four: WealthMoney-matters, from Day Master point of view.
Right Kind of Wrong
Winner of the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023 A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2023 A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering researcher of psychological safety and award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson.We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we’re often torn between two “failure cultures”: one that says to avoid failure at all costs, the other that says fail fast, fail often. The trouble is that both approaches lack the crucial distinctions to help us separate good failure from bad. As a result, we miss the opportunity to fail well. After decades of award-winning research, Amy Edmondson is here to upend our understanding of failure and make it work for us. In Right Kind of Wrong, Edmondson provides the framework to think, discuss, and practice failure wisely. Outlining the three archetypes of failure—basic, complex, and intelligent—Amy showcases how to minimize unproductive failure while maximizing what we gain from flubs of all stripes. She illustrates how we and our organizations can embrace our human fallibility, learn exactly when failure is our friend, and prevent most of it when it is not. This is the key to pursuing smart risks and preventing avoidable harm. With vivid, real-life stories from business, pop culture, history, and more, Edmondson gives us specifically tailored practices, skills, and mindsets to help us replace shame and blame with curiosity, vulnerability, and personal growth. You’ll never look at failure the same way again.
The International Journal of Indian Psychology, Volume 1, Issue 3
The International Journal of Indian Psychology (IJIP) is published by RED’SHINE Publication with 4 Issues per year. It is an online open access journal that provides quarterly publication of articles in all areas of the subject such as: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, School Psychology, Child Psychology, as well as Social Science, Home Science and Education also. The Journal welcomes the submissionof manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientificexcellence. Papers will be published by rapid process within 20 days afteracceptance and peer review process takes 14 days. All articles published inWWW.IJIP.IN will be peer-reviewed.
Highly Sensitive People: How to Feel Empowered in an Overstimulated World (Harnessing the Power of Empathic Abilities and a Guide for the Highly Sensitive Person)
Learn all about hypersensitivity and master the right coping methods to turn your life around!Have you always had trouble socializing with people?Hypersensitivity is a common problem that can manifest itself in various ways. It can have a physical impact on some people (extreme sensitivity to physical stimuli), while it can be more of a cognitive challenge for others. Luckily, there are several coping mechanisms to help make things easier, and that’s where this book comes in. In this book you will find a detailed discussion on the following subjects:• The pros and cons of the hsp.• Nature's contribution to the awesome personality of the highly sensitive.• 7 factors that differentiate an hsp from an empath.• 7 health concerns you didn't know are associated with hsps.• Discover the best career choices for hsp.• Secret self-care tips to keep you energized and happy.• How the loss of a pet affects an hsp and how to recover from it.• And much, much more!You might easily feel drained by interactions, find it difficult to concentrate with so many distractions, or feel stronger emotions from ordinary encounters.As a result, you feel misunderstood by others, who label you as difficult, weak, or full of drama.But not only are they gravely mistaken, but they also have no idea just how powerful you are. There are tons of incredible strengths that come with high sensitivity.