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• ISBN 10: 1137557664
• ISBN 13: 9781137557667
• Author: Ruth Richards

As human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. However this may often remain stifled by the choices we make, or ways in which we choose to live in our daily lives. Framed by the “Four Ps of Creativity” – product, person, process, press – this book offers an alternative understanding of the fundamentals of ordinary creativity. Ruth Richards highlights the importance of “process”, circumventing our common preoccupation with the product, or creative outcome, of creativity. By focusing instead on the creator and the creative process, she demonstrates how we may enhance our relationships with life, beauty, future possibilities, and one another.  This book illustrates how our daily life styles and choices, as well as our environments, may enable and allow creativity; whereas environments not conducive to creative flow may kill creative potential. Also explored are questions of ‘normality’, beauty and nuance in creativity, as well as creative relationships.

Table of contents:

Part I. NEW OPENINGS (Creative Product: 1st of Four P’s)

2. Missing Worlds

3. Creative Palette

4. Change and Open Systems

Part II. AHA! MOMENT (Creative Process)

5. Moments of Insight

6. Flavors of (Creative) Mind

7. Emergence of Life and Creativity

Part III. LIVING CREATIVELY (Creative Person and Press)

8. “Popcorn”: A Model (Ongoing Creative Insights)

9. Creative Person

10. Creative Space

Part IV. NORMAL AND ABNORMAL (Not What Some Think)

11. Deep Sea Diving

12. A New Normal

13. Creative (Compensatory) Advantage

Part V. NEW DIRECTIONS (Going Deeper)

14. Empathy and Relational Creativity

15. Beauty, the Sublime, the Hidden

16. Fingerprints of Chaos, Nuance, and Creativity

Part VI. NOW WHAT?

17. Higher Horizons: Three Views

18. Afterword: 12 Points to Ponder—Then Smile!

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