Work In Colour - Work. Think. Live. In Colour
Tuesday 23rd June 2009 | 2 comments
I am a reading addict, bookshelves everywhere, piles of half-read books all over my office...and my house. My greatest budget challenge is my tendency to check out the Amazon website with a glass of wine late at night.
But if I had to restrict my list to just a few (though that is pretty well impossible to contemplate), which would I choose?
45 minutes pass...
Well, clearly that's not going to work, so another question: What are the 5 books I most often recommend to clients in my work?
That's easier:
Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones: the best creative writing book I know
Martin Seligman's Authentic Happiness: why we should focus on strengths not weaknesses
Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces: because we all live through myth and story, whether we realise it or not
Lucia Cappachione's Visioning: for imagining and creating something different in your life
Howard Gardner's 5 Minds for the Future: the latest thinking from the man who brought us the theory of multiple intelligence
Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi's Creativity - Flow and the psychology of discovery and invention : the best explanation of peak satisfaction I've found
Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind - Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age: excellent synthesis of what's happening in the world right now
That's my top 5 (only it's actually 7 and could so easily have been 27...).
What are your essential reads?
Also have a room full of books...some of the best I found by happy accident...I have 3 of the 7 you quote amongst my top ten...I would add anything by Betty Edwards..."Drawing on the right side of the brain" for instance; Happy Mondays by Richard Reeves; Paul Ardens: "Whatever you think think the opposite" and I used to have a great book called "The office Intrapreneur" but someone nicked it...I lent it to a few people and I cant find it in print anymore now...but it was a very slick little red book...I'm currently working in marketting from within the health services field in WA and also get asked to speak about colour/intuition and colour use in ergonomic safety design. cheers janine
I love Betty Edwards too - I will check out the others, thanks! It's funny how so many books crop up on the same top 10 lists, isn't it? Joanna