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Sparks of genius : the thirteen thinking tools of the world's most creative people

Authors:Robert Scott Root-Bernstein (Author), Michèle Root-Bernstein (Author)

Summary:"Exercise your imagination and set off sparks of genius. In this mind-expanding book, Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein describe the "thinking tools" of extraordinary people, from Albert Einstein and Jane Goodall to Amadeus Mozart and Virginia Woolf, and show how you can practice the same imaginative skills to be your most inventive, at any time in your life"--Publisher

Print Book, English, 2001

Edition:First Mariner books edition 2001 View all formats and editions

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2001

Physical Description:viii, 401 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm

ISBN:

9780618127450, 0618127453

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:47906414

Subjects:

Creative ability

Creative thinking

Créativité (Éducation)

Thought and thinking

Contents:

Rethinking thinking

Schooling the imagination

Observing

Imaging

Abstracting

Recognizing patterns

Forming patterns

Analogizing

Body thinking

Empathizing

Dimensional thinking

Modeling

Playing

Transforming

Synthesizing

Synthesizing education