best books to read 2017 about creativity

How did he create so many million-dollar masterpieces? Was he talented? Hell yeah. But, almost every single time, he’d end up with something beautiful. Other times, he’d end up painting something totally different than what he initially envisioned.Ī few times, he’d start the whole damn thing over again. Sometimes, he’d decide to let an idea take his painting elsewhere. Then, he’d expand from there, allowing the brush to let him transfer whatever he was envisioning onto the canvas.

He’d sit down and start at the corner of the canvas with one single stroke of the brush. The way Picasso actually painted was much more in-depth. You see, most people think Picasso just sat down in front of a canvas and effortlessly cranked out masterpiece after masterpiece all day long, but that’s not how things went down at all. Read or Listen: click below to play the podcast version, scroll down to read. But, as it turns out, I was dead wrong (kind of.)

I thought creative people, like Pablo Picasso, for instance, were blessed with some sort of magical, innate talent that most of us just don’t have. And this is how I’d rationalize why people like Picasso were so much more creative than I was. Personally, I’d always thought “creativity” was sort of elusive.

Increasing your creativity-or developing any sense of creativity in the first place-seems to be hardest when you need it most.

Best books to read 2017 about creativity