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Unstuck: 52 Ways to Get (and Keep) Your Creativity Flowing at Home, at Work & in Your Studio by Slash Coleman, Noah Scalin

antlersantlers's review

1.0

What's funny is that I read this at the same time I'm reading Jonah Lehrer's [b:Imagine: How Creativity Works|12987640|Imagine How Creativity Works|Jonah Lehrer|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327000473s/12987640.jpg|17907836]. This book is pretty contrived and most of the exercises are really terrible. It's all "change your perspective" type of stuff (which is a good thing, generally) but most of the actual tasks are just dumb. Read Imagine instead.

bardicbear's review

5.0

I'll admit that I haven't technically finished this book. I've checked it out from the library and renewed it at least once and am still running out of time to finish it. What I have read I've really enjoyed. So far my favorite ideas are 6 word memoirs, cloud shapes, and one called book worm where you go to a library/bookstore, follow directions to get a random sentence ( shelf 5, book two, page 15, sentence 1) and then use that sentence as inspiration for your current project. I would love to have a copy of my own sometime to refer to...