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5.0 out of 5 stars Short and delightful
This book delivers on its promise, “A short and cheerful guide.” It’s a lightning fast read packed with encouraging nuggets of insight.John Cleese speaks from experience. The book is written in his voice, so much so I caught myself hearing him as I read.If you had lunch with John Cleese, and asked about his creative experience, this feels like what he would say to you. The book reads like a TED Talk or a lunch chat.These are his best bits of creative advice.In each chapter, Cleese sets a personal context, to show when he learned a new truth about creativity. He shares his personal struggles—common creative struggles. Then he distills each insight into a short sentence or two.Cleese weaves humor and encouragement into each revelation.A picture of my book and one of my favorite quotes is appended to this review.If you seek guidance from an expert who’s struggled with creativity. If you’d like a few clever insights that aren’t regurgitated on Medium and in writing blogs, give this book a whirl.This isn’t an in-depth study on writing or creativity. Look elsewhere if that’s what you seek. But it delivers on its promise, “A short and cheerful guide.”Creativity is hard. This is where “creativity” shines—this book is encouraging!
5.0 out of 5 stars So insightful and yet so obvious!
Loved this little book. it was just what I needed right now. It’s logically and practically creative all at once. Distinguishing between the ‘hare brain’ and the ‘tortoise brain’ is decisively eye opening and useful knowledge. Understanding these bits makes a world of difference and opens up the hidden creative mind inside that is always there but difficult to access. Thank you John!
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Practical, Concise
Excellent and practical advice from one who has lived a creative life. There are ideas within this that I am sharing with my artist friends already.
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT ADVICE
I stumbled across this title by accident, and seeing that it was written by John Cleese, thought I’d give it a read. I was very glad I did. It is short, sweet, to the point, and written with such clarity, honesty and purpose, in a way that makes sense, that I could actually see the little light bulb inside my head being switched on.Highly recommended!
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Serious Guide to Creativity
It should be noted that this is quite a short book - about 100 small pages. It took me about 30 minutes to read. And this is a serious guide to creativity - cheerful but not funny. I did not laugh at all when I read it, though I smiled once or twice at some witty comment.Cleese does provide a surprisingly insightful and useful guide to creativity in this small package. He tells you how to encourage creative ideas and what to do with them once you have them. This advice is informed by studies on brain function and on creativity, but the best parts are informed by his extensive experience as a creative writer.In addition to his quite specific instructions on encouraging creative ideas, he provides quite a useful variety of hints and suggestions. I have started following two of his basic instructions and I am already seeing improvements in my own creativity. I have no doubt that his method will work for you too.
3.0 out of 5 stars Creativity Lecture in book form.
Solid advice you can read in an afternoon, but it's basically the text version of that creativity lecture he gave a couple years back, which is free on YouTube.
5.0 out of 5 stars Very readable
My thanks to Mr. Cleese for this succinct book on creative work. I always thought I would be a writer. I had no idea I would be found interviewing patients correlating clinical findings for medical notes on a diverse patient population. Exploring problems of being human and an acceptable therapy for such problems. The forces of the unconscious are oceanic. Endlessly fascinating. We operate in the familiar, enjoy the novel and unexpected, rejoice in understanding, our spirits soaring with music. It is cliche’ that “knowledge is power” but getting at what we don’t know is empowering. Mr. Cleese gets right to the heart of the matter.
4.0 out of 5 stars Funny. Good material
Cleese is funny. The material is somewhat useful.But for funny, rewatch Fawlty Towers and for useful there's tons of other stuff.Ultimately, what makes each individual creative is not necessarily reproducible for others.The thing is, if I were famous like Cleese, I'd totally exploit it with little books like this.Cleese's autobiography was really well-written. And it only covers the first part of his life. I look forward to the next volume (which I do hope he is working on). Now that book I would give 5 stars to.
Excelente libro
Excelente libro corto para leer de una sentada. Los temas de los que habla los cuenta muy a manera de John Cleese. Me encantó!
Very useful for creative people
Short and practical. Useful for both beginners and advanced creatives.
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Excellent book. Information presented in a concise and easy yo understand way. Worth rereading.
One of the best books on creativity
Simple. To the point. Loved it.
Great little book ... thanks John
Short and to the point. John Cleese delivers some sound advice based on his vast experience in all avenues of life.
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Description:
Editorial Reviews
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5.0 out of 5 stars Short and delightful
This book delivers on its promise, “A short and cheerful guide.” It’s a lightning fast read packed with encouraging nuggets of insight.John Cleese speaks from experience. The book is written in his voice, so much so I caught myself hearing him as I read.If you had lunch with John Cleese, and asked about his creative experience, this feels like what he would say to you. The book reads like a TED Talk or a lunch chat.These are his best bits of creative advice.In each chapter, Cleese sets a personal context, to show when he learned a new truth about creativity. He shares his personal struggles—common creative struggles. Then he distills each insight into a short sentence or two.Cleese weaves humor and encouragement into each revelation.A picture of my book and one of my favorite quotes is appended to this review.If you seek guidance from an expert who’s struggled with creativity. If you’d like a few clever insights that aren’t regurgitated on Medium and in writing blogs, give this book a whirl.This isn’t an in-depth study on writing or creativity. Look elsewhere if that’s what you seek. But it delivers on its promise, “A short and cheerful guide.”Creativity is hard. This is where “creativity” shines—this book is encouraging!
5.0 out of 5 stars So insightful and yet so obvious!
Loved this little book. it was just what I needed right now. It’s logically and practically creative all at once. Distinguishing between the ‘hare brain’ and the ‘tortoise brain’ is decisively eye opening and useful knowledge. Understanding these bits makes a world of difference and opens up the hidden creative mind inside that is always there but difficult to access. Thank you John!
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Practical, Concise
Excellent and practical advice from one who has lived a creative life. There are ideas within this that I am sharing with my artist friends already.
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT ADVICE
I stumbled across this title by accident, and seeing that it was written by John Cleese, thought I’d give it a read. I was very glad I did. It is short, sweet, to the point, and written with such clarity, honesty and purpose, in a way that makes sense, that I could actually see the little light bulb inside my head being switched on.Highly recommended!
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Serious Guide to Creativity
It should be noted that this is quite a short book - about 100 small pages. It took me about 30 minutes to read. And this is a serious guide to creativity - cheerful but not funny. I did not laugh at all when I read it, though I smiled once or twice at some witty comment.Cleese does provide a surprisingly insightful and useful guide to creativity in this small package. He tells you how to encourage creative ideas and what to do with them once you have them. This advice is informed by studies on brain function and on creativity, but the best parts are informed by his extensive experience as a creative writer.In addition to his quite specific instructions on encouraging creative ideas, he provides quite a useful variety of hints and suggestions. I have started following two of his basic instructions and I am already seeing improvements in my own creativity. I have no doubt that his method will work for you too.
3.0 out of 5 stars Creativity Lecture in book form.
Solid advice you can read in an afternoon, but it's basically the text version of that creativity lecture he gave a couple years back, which is free on YouTube.
5.0 out of 5 stars Very readable
My thanks to Mr. Cleese for this succinct book on creative work. I always thought I would be a writer. I had no idea I would be found interviewing patients correlating clinical findings for medical notes on a diverse patient population. Exploring problems of being human and an acceptable therapy for such problems. The forces of the unconscious are oceanic. Endlessly fascinating. We operate in the familiar, enjoy the novel and unexpected, rejoice in understanding, our spirits soaring with music. It is cliche’ that “knowledge is power” but getting at what we don’t know is empowering. Mr. Cleese gets right to the heart of the matter.
4.0 out of 5 stars Funny. Good material
Cleese is funny. The material is somewhat useful.But for funny, rewatch Fawlty Towers and for useful there's tons of other stuff.Ultimately, what makes each individual creative is not necessarily reproducible for others.The thing is, if I were famous like Cleese, I'd totally exploit it with little books like this.Cleese's autobiography was really well-written. And it only covers the first part of his life. I look forward to the next volume (which I do hope he is working on). Now that book I would give 5 stars to.
Excelente libro
Excelente libro corto para leer de una sentada. Los temas de los que habla los cuenta muy a manera de John Cleese. Me encantó!
Very useful for creative people
Short and practical. Useful for both beginners and advanced creatives.
Review
Excellent book. Information presented in a concise and easy yo understand way. Worth rereading.
One of the best books on creativity
Simple. To the point. Loved it.
Great little book ... thanks John
Short and to the point. John Cleese delivers some sound advice based on his vast experience in all avenues of life.
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