PART 1: MASTERING CREATIVE ENERGY. Feel Qi Now
Qi Is the Real Secret of Creativity
Prepare for Better Reception: Assuming Your Full Stature
Basic Energy Anatomy and Terminology
Using Everyday Activities to Cultivate Your Qi
Q and A: Mastering Creative Energy
PART 2: MASTERING THE CREATIVE MINDSET. Creativity Self-Assessment
Embrace a Creative Mindset
Qi Cultivation to Shift from a Fixed Mindset to a Creative Mindset
Recover Your Creative Birthright
Qi Cultivation to Support Your Re-Geniusing
Invite Surprise and Wonder
Embrace Playfulness, Humor, and Laughter
Qi Cultivation for Embracing Surprise and Humor
Qi Cultivation for Realizing and Aligning with Your Core Purpose
Create Your Own Logo and Motto
Strengthen Your Confusion Endurance
Be courageous and persevere
Appreciate beauty, sensory delights, and natural wonders
Q&A: mastering the creative mindset
PART 3: MASTERING THE CREATIVE PROCESS. The creative process requires different modes of thinking
Preparation: the art of seeing the problem
Generation: the art of nonhabitual thought
Incubation: the art of doing nothing
Evaluation: the art of hooking the fish
Implementation: the art of getting it done
Nine hats for the five phases
Mind mapping: multipurpose creative-process tool
Balancing two systems of thinking: fast and slow
System 3: thinking outside of time
Q&A mastering the creative process
PART 4: MASTERING CREATIVE ENERGY, MINDSET, AND PROCESS: MOVING FROM FORCE TO POWER
AFTERWARD: Who moved my qi?
