You Be Creative Too is for students who make things and for every learner whose work asks for fresh ideas: an essay that needs its own argument, a design brief, a composition, a research question, a project that has to be more than a copy of the textbook.
It draws on research showing that creativity is not a fixed trait but a skill that grows through practice and the right conditions. Here you will find wisdom on believing in your own creative capacity, generating ideas, asking better questions, experimenting with playfulness, finding flow in deep work and building habits that keep creativity going.
Inside are two PDFs, both with your name on every page: a printable deck of A4 cards and a matching ebook. The cards follow nine creativity dimensions: Creative Confidence, Divergent Thinking, Innovation, Artistic Expression, Problem Finding, Experimentation, Flow States, Intrinsic Motivation and Creative Habits. Each card has a theme, a short description and an image on the front, and on the back a set of quotes from many voices and wisdom traditions, with room for your own notes. The ebook holds the same wisdom as a flowing book, to read on a tablet or phone or to print and bind.
The page suggests a nine-week programme, one dimension a week, so I suggest you begin with Creative Confidence. When a particular piece of work stalls, Navigate Creative Blocks & Flow is its companion, organised around the situations of creative work rather than the traits you build over time.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, LearnSmart4Life