Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Awakening the creative mind

I've finished reading this book called 'On Creativity, Awakening the creative mind' by Leo Ann Mean. Even the name of the author is unique, right?

What I like about this book and why I recommend it:
  • it's written in a language that's easily comprehensible
  • it talks about how creativity can be used in many ways, a lot of them happen in our daily lives that we don't appreciate

Creativity in languages intriques me such as use of words in onomatopoeia (formation of a word by imitating the natural sound associated with the object or action involved, paradox (opposites put together to give powerful), mnemonics (abbreviation to remember things) and puns (words of the same sound but with different meaning).

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