What's Your Creative Type? by Meta Wagner

What's Your Creative Type?

by Meta Wagner

The greatest creators in human history--from Mozart to Meryl Streep, Jackson Pollock to Jay-Z--don't just have talent--they also understand their motivations for pursuing art. What's Your Creative Type? helps artists do the same in a fun and witty way. Stepping away from the hyper-focus on how people create, What's Your Creative Type? instead explores why. By identifying your creative motivation type, you'll be able to find renewed energy, overcome creative blocks, and release the artist within.

Drawing from creativity theory and personality typology, each chapter of the book is devoted to a creative type, from the A-Lister seeking recognition to the Activist who wants to change the world. What's Your Creative Type? is peppered with pop-culture studies of famous artists and illustrates each type with entertaining examples from legendary figures.

Whether you're a seasoned artist or writer in search of inspiration or simply looking to explore your budding creative talents and motivations, What's Your Creative Type? has fresh and reliable advice and insight for you.

Reviewed by Joséphine on

4 of 5 stars

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Initial thoughts: Pretty interesting book. Sections were very well organised and straightforward. A little more basic than I had expected but the ideas and advice are presented in a manner that's very easy to grasp. As always, with typification comes fleeting generalisation, which the author did address as either those who fully fit a creative type or those who have such creative tendencies. Not a lot was said about mixed creative types, though, which would've mad this book a whole lot more informative.

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