A book report on Questlove’s creativity treatise

A left-brain, right-brain take on the creative process.

I recently came across this book, written by ex-Mad Magazine staffer Nick Meglin. Here’s some quick notes about how it inspired me.

“The Creative Act,” Rick Rubin’s reflection on creativity, is a meditation that resonates with my own thoughts on the topic.

”The Work of Art” by Adam Moss digs into the creative process through a series of interviews with artists working in different mediums.

Through a series of interviews of creative people, “Creativity” by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi interrogates the similarities between the character traits of creative people, and common threads of how people approach…

Tharp, an accomplished and celebrated choreographer, draws on her career to share stories, prompts, and ideas about how artists can make creativity a habitual part of their lives.

I came to Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, thinking that I already knew what it was. A fairly dense, though canonical and oft-cited academic work on the psychology of the “flow…

I recently finished reading The Practice: Shipping Creative Work: the latest book from Seth Godin. In case you haven’t heard of Godin, he’s the marketing guru that famously publishes short…

I picked up John Cleese’s newest book, Creativity: a short and cheerful guide, on a whim. I’ve started blogging about creativity, so it seems like a handy thing to read…

I’m a huge fan of Pixar films, and six years ago, while heavily pregnant with my second son, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to visit their studio.…