I’m relaunching my ebook “How to Be More Creative – A Handbook for Alchemists”, which now has a beautiful new cover designed by the talented David Billings.
The ebook has 130 pages and 20 chapters and is chock full of value, as detailed further down this blog post.
The purpose of this ebook is not just to give you information, but to transform you into a more creative and innovative person.
Print it out and place it in a ring-binder; you’ll be creating a work file and adding lots of things to your binder, including creativity techniques, journal pages, quotes, photographs, ideas, and so on. At the end of almost every chapter in this ebook you’ll find instructions on what to do with your work file.
Here’s What People Are Saying About “How to Be More Creative – A Handbook For Alchemists”
“How to be More Creative – A Handbook for Alchemists” is not just a book that will help you enhance your artistic talents; it’s also about bringing more creativity into your everyday life, for problem solving and for bringing more joy and satisfaction into your life. It’s certainly a book after my own heart!
Marelisa provides an excellent roadmap for moving beyond lineal thinking. Several techniques are discussed that will get your creative juices running like a tap. In her book, she also draws on several examples of famous personalities, like Edward De Bono and Randy Ingermanson, who offer valuable lessons on how to be more creative. Her book is well researched, with extensive links and rich resources.
For anyone who wants more creativity in their life, this is the book for you!
— Evelyn Lim, life coach and writer to Attraction Mind Map, Singapore.
The word ‘alchemist’ – what does that mean? “A person who turns something common into something special.” In this ebook, you’ll find a myriad of ways in which to creatively apply this in your life – and really become an alchemist! Marelisa has created a fantastic ebook which is a resource on many, many ways to get the creative thought process really revved up in your life! And what truly makes this great is both the number of different methods on being creative, and the easy to follow understanding of each of these. If you’re looking to really increase your creativity factor, then this is just what you can use! Marelisa has created an amazing resource on creativity techniques that everyone can apply to all areas of their life right away!
Lance from “The Jungle of Life”, Wisconsin, USA
Here Are Some of the Methods, Tips, and Resources You’ll Find Inside
- Three proven frameworks recommended by top creativity experts that will help you to generate ideas and find solutions to problems.
- Learn how to move sideways to solve problems by taking different perspectives, questioning your assumptions, and trying different points of entry. Stop trying to solve problems by digging deeper in the same hole.
- Create a “toolbox” of creativity techniques you can use to solve just about any problem.
- Discover the secret formula behind the amazing creativity of the world’s most famous product design firm.
- Get lots of ideas on how to break out of your routine to look at problems and challenges with fresh eyes.
- Find out how to play your way to new ideas and laugh your way to solving problems.
- Learn how to approach almost anything creatively and how to see life as a series of opportunities for everyday creative acts: whether you’re deciding what to wear, fixing dinner, or entertaining your child. The world-renowned psychologist Abraham H. Maslow called this kind of creativity “self-actualizing creativity”.
- This ebook will teach you the secrets to get your ideas to reproduce like rabbits.
- Discover how to use visual thinking to get unexpected results (it’s how Einstein developed the theory of relativity).
- Learn the traits that highly creative people share (it doesn’t matter if you don’t have these characteristics now, just fake it ’till you make it).
- Join the debate: is creativity work or inspiration? Learn how to skyrocket your creativity by answering that it’s both.
- Learn tips on how to turn your ideas into reality.
- Get step-by-step instructions on how to enter the most effective creative state there is: the flow state.
- Discover even more ways to get your creative synapses firing.
Take a Look Inside
Here’s a .PDF file that contains the ebook’s table of contents and the introduction:
“Table of Contents and Introduction”
In addition, you can read an excerpt here (the excerpt did not make it into the ebook due to length considerations, but it’s a good reflection of the ebook’s content): An Excerpt From “How to Be More Creative – A Handbook for Alchemists”.
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More Praise for “How to Be More Creative – A Handbook for Alchemists”
Marelisa’s handbook on how to be more creative is exactly that: a handy book full of creativity. If you want to know how to increase your creativity, learn how the biggest creators in our world do it, and get tips and tricks on creative exercises you can do, then this book is for you. It is full of examples, references, exercises, descriptions and hands on experiences. It is a book you go back to often when you feel you need a little creative push. I can highly recommend it.
– Mindful Mimi, Luxemburg
Book Excerpt: “Creativity is Using Old Things in New Places”
During a lecture titled “What Does a Creative Organization Do?”, Stanford Professor Bob Sutton explains that ideas don’t come out of thin air. Creativity is using old things in new places, ways, and combinations. It’s about finding old ideas and old concepts and doing new things with them, blending them together in new ways. This includes everything from Play-Doh to Fermat’s last theorem.
Play-doh was made by a man named Joe McVicker who had a plant in Central Ohio that made a white dough-like substance for removing soot from wallpaper. There was a point in the United States where heat moved from being coal-based—which was dirty and created smudges—to gas and electric. Therefore, as people switched to the new energy sources McVicker’s market started shrinking. So McVicker asked himself what he could do with his wallpaper cleaner.
He spoke to his sister-in-law—Kay–who was a nursery school teacher. She gave the wallpaper cleaner to her students to play with and reported back to McVicker that it was much easier for little kids to play with the dough-like substance than it was for them to play with hard modeling clay. She suggested coloring it and calling it Play-Doh. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Sutton goes on to explain that Professor Andrew Wiles solved Fermat’s Theorem in 1995–which had remained unsolved since the 1600’s–by locking himself in a room for eight years using the various works of the mathematicians who came before him as puzzle pieces to solve the problem. So the solution did not come to him out of nowhere, it came as a result of picking through everything that came before him. That is, by combining old ideas.
