Create | simonthescribe

Create - a users guide to creative thinking

Create — A Guide to Creative Thinking

Non‑fiction | Adult audience | Creativity, resilience, personal growth

A creative thinking guide. In a world where rapid change affects every part of our lives, creativity is no longer a luxury — it is a survival skill. Create: A Guide to Creative Thinking is a practical, uplifting handbook designed to help adults tap into their natural creative abilities and use them to navigate uncertainty with confidence.

Creativity can turn threats into opportunities, fear into curiosity, and chaos into clarity. It strengthens resilience, fuels innovation, and opens the door to new ways of thinking and living. This book shows you how to access that power within yourself.

Through a rich blend of insights, reflections, and hands‑on exercises, Create guides you step by step into a more imaginative, flexible, and empowered mindset. You’ll learn how to break habitual patterns, generate fresh ideas, reframe problems, and approach life with renewed energy and optimism. Whether you’re facing personal challenges, professional transitions, or simply seeking a more vibrant way of thinking, this book offers tools that can transform your everyday experience.

Accessible, encouraging, and deeply human, Create is a companion for anyone who wants to grow, adapt, and thrive in changing times. Your creativity is your greatest asset — this book helps you use it.

Buy Now

Access your inner genius with ‘Create’ from simonthescribe:

When widespread changes are affecting all of our lives, creativity is the single most important human trait helping us face uncertainty. It allows us to transform threats into opportunities and negativity into positive hope. It gives us the edge in facing change. It produces astounding resilience in the face of difficulty.

Like a God who plays dice and laughs. With a truly creative approach to life – you can always find a way! Creativity gives you the personal power to adapt, to transmute even unwanted changes into something brilliant. A creative response gives you joy at a ‘perfect’ solution. It helps you to live in the moment and make the best of now, whatever your situation.

You can turn perceived failure into a victory, disappointment and sadness into laughter, poison into nectar – you come up ‘smelling of roses’ every time! You always seem to land on your feet! People will wonder how you do it, again and again! Read ‘Create’ from simonthescribe and apply the exercises to your own life to access your inner magician.

From a lifetime of study and practice by the author ‘Create’ answers important questions about creativity.

what is it?
where does it come from?
why do we need it?
what are the pre-conditions for creativity?
how can it be stimulated?

Create - a users guide to creative thinking — Create by simonthescribe

‘Create’ then presents you with thirty exercises to stimulate your capacity for creative thought and action. These mental tools give you an edge in facing change today. As a personal trait, creativity offers so much in the management of day-to-day affairs. Creativity aids you personally in many ways beyond its established business context of ‘increasing competitiveness in a commercial context’.

Improve your personal ability to access creativity to:

improve quality of life on a daily basis by extending resources and seeing more where nobody else can
tune you in to your own wealth
contribute positively to the lives of other people around you
change your own and peoples’ perceptions about what is possible
give hope for the future
help other people with their stuff
increase your joy
help you solve problems where others can’t
help you make new things
help you recycle and ‘upcycle’ with limited resources
help you have fun and enjoy the moment
enjoy playing

Simonthescribe, an artist and writer, became interested in studying creativity as an art student in the late 1970’s. This book is a compendium of useful research and exercises collected along the way in the years since then. With the aid of this book, you can find ways to embrace change in your own work and life and to make the most of these exciting times for yourself – through sheer genius creativity. Human beings have survived a long time through adaptability and finding new, even radical solutions to problems are at the heart of wholesome change.

Widespread changes are challenging our economy, society and environment. As the pace speeds up – creativity is the single most important human factor that helps us adapt to change. ‘Create’ will help you develop your capacity for creative thought and take the advantage.

‘Create’ also presents you with thirty exercises to stimulate your capacity for creative thought and action. Using this book you will:

develop sensitivity to problems
map your own creative process
use several creative thinking processes
determine the prime values of your ideas, messages, designs or products
see how to construct a creative brief
generate many great ideas to choose from
use exercises to break your thinking conventions
increase the fluency and flexibility of your thinking
strengthen your imagination and creative ‘muscles’.
learn how to hand over idea generation to your sub-conscious supercomputer
use metaphor for thinking in an energy paradigm
recognise the best solutions and access positive outcomes
recognise the various forms of capital around you
know how to screen, reject, explore, combine, strengthen and shape ideas
evaluate your ideas and experiences using a matrix

Create, a guide to creative thinking

When widespread changes are affecting all of our lives, creativity is the single most important human trait helping us to face uncertainty. It can turn threats into opportunities and negativity into positive hope. It gives us an edge in facing changes, even those thrust upon us. It can produce astounding resilience in the face of difficulty and chaos. Access your inner genius using the many ideas and exercises in this user’s guide to creative thinking. Epub File £4.50 plus tax.

Buy Now

follow this link to purchase ‘Create’ in print at Lulu.com: Create by simonthescribe .

intended audience: