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Everyone from the budding entrepreneur to
the weekend writer is looking for a great idea. Even Fredrich
Nietzsche said that "ideas come when they want,
not when I want." But where do great ideas come
from?
In this searching look into the essence
of creativity, forty winners of the coveted MacArthur Foundation
Fellowship -- the so-called "genius award" --
provide a glimpse inside their own experience of the creative
process. Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, opera director
Peter Sellars, poets Joseph Brodsky and Brad Leithauser,
social scientists Robert Coles and Sara Lawrence Lightfoot,
and others in fields as diverse as filmmaking, carpentry,
and anthropology reveal how they work and how they sneak
up on creativity. Blending conversation, theory, and examples
from literature and life, this absorbing, thought-provoking
book will also show you how to harness the creative spark
in your own life.
A former trial attorney, Denise Shekerjian
is also the author of Competent Counsel. She lives
with her husband and son in New Providence, New Jersey.
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