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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Meet Your Creative Brain | |
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| Wanted: Your Creative Brain | |
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| Why activating your creativity is important to individual and societal well-being | |
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| Your Mental Comfort Zone | |
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| Introduction to the seven brainsets | |
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| Fun quizzes to determine which brainset is your mental comfort zone | |
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| Tour Your Creative Brain | |
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| Brief introduction to the parts of brain that are important to the creative process | |
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| Brainsets and the Creative Process | |
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| Description of the stages that comprise both the deliberate and the spontaneous creative process | |
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| Training Your Creative Brain | |
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| Opening the Mind: Accessing the Absorb Brainset | |
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| Access externally and internally generated information with an uncritical eye | |
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| Imagining the Possibilities: Accessing the Envision Brainset | |
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| Use the power of mental imagery to construct creative ideas | |
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| Thinking Divergently: Accessing the Connect Brainset | |
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| Associate novel information to produce a multitude of ideas | |
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| Shaping the Creative Idea: Accessing the Reason Brainset | |
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| Consciously work through a creative "problem" | |
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| Recognizing Useful Ideas: Accessing the Evaluate Brainset | |
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| Evaluate creative ideas for appropriateness | |
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| Using Emotion Creatively: Accessing the Transform Brainset | |
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| Put your negative emotions to work for you | |
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| Performing Creatively: Accessing the Stream Brainset | |
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| Practice skill-appropriate improvisation | |
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| Putting the CREATES Strategies to Work | |
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| Flexing Your Creative Brain | |
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| Exercises for switching between brainsets to enhance cognitive flexibility | |
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| Applying the Brainsets to Real-World Creativity | |
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| Tips for using the brainsets in all stages of the creative process | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| How to Score the CREATES Brainsets Assessment | |
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| The Token Economy System | |
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| The Daily Activities Calendar | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| About the Author | |
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| About Harvard Medical School | |
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| Index | |
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| To Stevie and Nacie—the creative bookends of my life | |