"Harvard Health Publications, Harvard Medical School."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1: Meet your creative brain -- Wanted: your creative brain -- Your mental comfort zone -- Tour your creative brain -- Brainsets and the creative process -- 2: Training your creative brain -- Opening the mind: accessing the absorb brainset -- Imagining the possibilities: accessing the envision brainset -- Thinking divergently: accessing the connect brainset -- Shaping the creative idea: accessing the reason brainset -- Recognizing useful ideas: accessing the evaluate brainset -- Using emotion creatively: accessing the transform brainset -- Performing creatively: accessing the stream brainset -- 3: Putting the CREATES strategies to work -- Flexing your creative brain -- Applying the brainsets to real-world creativity.

"Filled with research-based techniques for expanding creativity and increasing productivity This provocative book reveals why sitting in front of a light box can increase your creativity more than listening to a Bach concerto as example. The author Shelley H. Carson, a Harvard psychologist, explains that creativity isn't something only scientists, investors, artists, writers, and musicians enjoy, but rather all of us use our creative brains every day at home and at work and have the ability to increase our mental functioning and creativity by understanding the seven brainsets. Explains the seven brainsets of the mind and their functions as related to creativity, productivity, and innovation, including Open, Scan, Think, Vision, Appraise, Streaming and Goal Provides quizzes, exercises, and self-tests to activate each of these seven brainsets to unlock our maximum creativity This book is a Harvard Health Publication that offers helpful suggestions that can be applied in both your personal and professional life."--