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Use coding as a tool to make thinking visible
Anyone can be creative. You just have to know how to think creatively, which involves taking a more imaginative approach to the challenges we all face, whether at work or at home. And you can learn how to wield the same research-based tools that today’s creative people use. All you need is an open mind, a determination to succeed, and The Creative Thinker’s Toolkit. These 24 lectures by creative-thinking expert and professor Gerard Puccio of Buffalo State–SUNY take you step-by-step through the creative-thinking process. Whether you want to overcome writer’s block, solve a complex business problem, or figure out the best way to resolve a tense argument, this course will give you everything you need so that when other people are dodging challenges, you’re uncovering the hidden opportunities they’ll have missed.
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Use coding as a tool to make thinking visible
Creativity is a skill, one which all of us can cultivate. This course takes you on a deep dive into the human creative brain, where you’ll learn about the synchronized brain activity that underlies creative thinking; key stages in the creative process; how to stimulate creative insight, imagination, and the flow state; the process of mastering a skill, the steps of design thinking, the rules of improvisation; and much more.
Explore classic masterpieces of the imaginative mind from famous authors such as Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Jules Verne, J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and more. From talking frogs to human robots, from Mad Hatters to mad scientists, Professor Rabkin helps you discover the magic, wonder, and profound significance of that literature.
Thinking is at the heart of our everyday lives, yet our thinking can go wrong in any number of ways. Bad arguments, fallacious reasoning, misleading language, and built-in cognitive biases are all traps that keep us from rational decision making. What can we do to avoid these traps and think better? Is it possible to think faster, more efficiently, and more systematically? The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room, taught by award-winning Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, arms you against the perils of bad thinking and supplies you with an arsenal of strategies to help you be more creative, logical, inventive, realistic, and rational in all aspects of your daily life.
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