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Unleash Your Creativity: A 7-Day Guide to Innovation & New Ideas

Your brain feels like a blank page and 'I'm not a creative person' is your whole personality. Let's fix that. This journey is a 7-day glow-up for your imagination. We'll unblock your brain, find where good ideas hide, and build the habits of an idea machine.

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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

by Julia Cameron

Day 1 is your creative boot camp. This is the OG guide to unblocking your inner artist with practical, weird-but-it-works exercises. It's famous for a reason. Get ready for your 'morning pages' era.

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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

by Steven Johnson

Good ideas aren't magic 'aha!' moments. They have a pattern. This book explores the environments and habits that spark innovation. It's a relieving look at how creativity is a process you can cultivate, not a gift you're born with.

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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

by Adam Grant

Being creative means going against the grain, which is scary. This book is packed with surprising research on what it actually takes to champion a new idea. It's a confidence booster and a practical guide to being a creative force.

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

You know that feeling when you're so absorbed in something that time disappears? That's 'flow.' It's the peak state for creativity and performance. This book is the science behind that feeling and how to get more of it in your life.

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The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

This book is pure, unadulterated good vibes and a total mindset shift. It's full of practices to help you reframe problems into possibilities. It teaches you to stop seeing a world of scarcity and start seeing a universe of creativity.

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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull

Let's learn from the best. This is a tell-all from the co-founder of Pixar about how they built one of the most creative companies on earth. It's packed with lessons on how to lead creative teams and protect fragile new ideas.

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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

by Richard Feynman

The final lesson is to be curious and playful. This is the memoir of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was also a master safecracker, artist, and bongo player. It's a hilarious and inspiring look into the mind of a truly original and creative thinker.

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