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A review by palliem
Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer
4.0
I really liked this book; the only thing that kept me from giving it 5 stars was that the second half of the book, which focused on creativity and the group, seemed far less original than the first half. We've all heard about the amazing companies with their revolutionary approaches to creativity that are chronicled in some of the later chapters--Pixar and the firms of Silcon Valley are the biggest focus--and while the information was interesting, it just didn't feel quite as new or revolutionary.
That does not, however, stop this from being a fascinating book. I particularly liked the early chapters on the brain and how creativity works on a biological level; the bits focusing on poets and their drug habits (and the reasons for them) as well as the relationship between bipolar disorder and creativity were particularly interesting, as was the later chapter on Elizabethan England and historical time periods that produce an "excess of genius."
I repeatedly found myself stopping what I was reading to go describe some amazing new idea to my husband (who good naturedly listened) and I can't give a book any higher praise than this: it made me want to talk about it.
That does not, however, stop this from being a fascinating book. I particularly liked the early chapters on the brain and how creativity works on a biological level; the bits focusing on poets and their drug habits (and the reasons for them) as well as the relationship between bipolar disorder and creativity were particularly interesting, as was the later chapter on Elizabethan England and historical time periods that produce an "excess of genius."
I repeatedly found myself stopping what I was reading to go describe some amazing new idea to my husband (who good naturedly listened) and I can't give a book any higher praise than this: it made me want to talk about it.