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The Art of Creativity - Susie Pearl



So pleased to be on the Blog Tour today.


Description

Discover the daily habits of highly creative people.

What do most highly creative people have in common? What are the habits they cultivate? What is 'the flow' and how do you get into it?

THE ART OF CREATIVITY is a practical guide to help you unlock your creative potential and find fulfilment and happiness in the process.

After 20 years working with some of the most creative people on the planet, writer and business coach Susie Pearl has unearthed the habits of highly creative people and takes you on a journey to unlock your own inner stream of creativity.

Over the course of this easy-to-follow guide, you will learn to take risks with your inner artist, ignore critics, release blocks and get into daily creative habits in order to build better projects, ideas and artistic collaborations, and unearth creative solutions and innovations.

Containing practical tools and exercises, and a step-by-step to help you along the way, THE ART OF CREATIVITY will reveal a more fulfilled, passionate and creative you.

Review

I consider myself to be fairly creative but I am always looking to improve and find out how to carry on when you lose your mojo. Whether you are in a similar position or looking to actually begin to be creative you will find a lot of helpful advice in this book.

The book is divided into chapters covering seven habits. If like me you have read self help books in the past this might sound familiar, but they only have in common the words "seven" and "habits" this is a totally different take on the wording. Covering amongst other subjects Fears and Blocks, Journaling and even your breathing and taking a nap. There's even a mention of Coronavirus bringing this work right up to date. 

I learnt quite a few things that I haven't found in my reading in this area before. Such as the brain has five different brainwave states. Whilst you might not need to know the science behind it, Susie then takes us through how this affects our thinking at different times of the day. She also goes on to how to boost those brainwaves to achieve a higher state of creativity.

This is definitely a book to dip back into and remind yourself of the tips and techniques and all round good advice. There's also useful blank pages to jot down thoughts and ideas to put into practice the exercises in the book. Whilst this book isn't going to make you into the next Da Vinci it's certainly food for thought, and has many ways to look at not only creativity but your life differently too.

I'm giving this book 5 out of 5 stars. My thanks to Random Things Tours for a copy of the book to review.

Author

Susie Pearl is a writer, podcaster and a host of workshops on creative
writing, visioning and meditation. She is a mentor and holistic coach for
companies such as MTV, Huffington Post, Google and Sony. She is the
author of Instructions for Happiness and Success (2012) and has been
involved in writing and collaborating on international bestselling titles
including The Art of Eating Well with Hemsley & Hemsley and contributed to research for Paul McKenna's I Can Make You Rich. She is the founder of a
celebrity PR agency in London, and lives between London and Ibiza. She
hosts the Conversations with Susie Pearl podcast and is a cancer survivor.

You can follow Susie at: 

Twitter: @susie_pearl 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/susiepearlwriter

Instagram: www.instagram.com/susiepearlx 

susiepearl.com / conversationswithsusiepearl.com
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