25 Points of Creativity
08. Be Inspired!
(Recommended Reading and Viewing Lists)
Books You Should ReadCreativity: Unleashing the Forces Within, osho
Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously, osho
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living, Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler
A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
Citizen Turner: The Wild Rise of an American Tycoon, Robert Goldberg and Gerald Jay Goldberg
Discover Your Genius: : How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds, Michael J. Gelb
The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan Fletcher
Symposium, Plato
Exuberance: The Passion for Life, Kay Redfield Jamison
Love: What Life Is All About,Leo F. Buscaglia
Art of Loving, Erich Fromm
Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
Genius: the Natural History of Creativity,H. J. Eysenck
Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness, David Joseph Weeks and Jamie James
The Wonderful Works of William Shakespeare
Roget's Thesaurus
Webster's Dictionary
The Bible
(The New Testament in particular is a great example of creativity because it presents four different perspectives on the same story.)
Films You Must See
My Life as a Dog, Lasse Hallström
Life is Beautiful, Roberto Benigni
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, Mel Stuart
Mary Poppins, Robert Stevenson
What the Bleep Do We Know?, Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente
Young Einstein, Yahoo Serious
Amélie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton
Awakenings, Penny Marshall
Big, Penny Marshall
Cyrano De Bergerac, Michael Gordon or Jean-Paul Rappeneau
El Hombre Mirando Al Sureste, The Man Looking Southeast,
Forrest Gump, Robert Zemeckis
Zelig, Woody Allen
Go With the Flow Act!