How Creativity Rules the World

The Art and Business of Turning Your Ideas into Gold

By: Maria Brito

Narrated by: Maria Brito

Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

Axiom Business Book Award Winner in Entrepreneurship Category

Read by the author.

Learn to make creativity work for your career.

Anyone, regardless of who you are or what you do, can cultivate the habits, actions, and attitudes that inspire creativity and innovation.

There has never been a more crucial time than now to develop your creativity and your ability to innovate. Coming up with original ideas of value is today’s most precious skill.

How Creativity Rules the World shows that, despite contrary beliefs, creativity can be taught and learned by anyone. Creativity is an inexhaustible resource that is the key to thriving in the business world and beyond. This timeless guide promises to make the creative process of successful seven-figure artists and billion-dollar entrepreneurs—as well as Maria’s own—accessible and actionable for you to take the power of their ideas to the next level.

In How Creativity Rules the World, you will learn how to:

• Overcome limiting thoughts and dispel myths about creativity.
• Unleash creativity through concrete data, historical passages, and examples of modern entrepreneurship.
• Develop timeless habits, principles, and tools that worked six centuries ago and continue to work today.
• Employ creativity in an everyday context to produce extraordinary results.

With revealing studies and stories spanning business and art, this book is a deep dive into history, culture, psychology, science, and entrepreneurship; analyzing the elements used by some of the most creative minds today and throughout the last 600 years.

Contemporary art curator and founder of The Groove, Maria Brito discovered the power of creativity when she transitioned from being an unhappy Harvard-trained corporate lawyer to a thriving entrepreneur and innovator in the art world. After applying the principles in How Creativity Rules the World to her own business, Maria started teaching them to hundreds of people, ranging from entrepreneurs to artists to CEOs. Proven by her students’ creative successes, Maria will guide you to strike gold with your ideas as well.

©2022 Maria Brito (P)2022 HarperCollins Leadership

Authentic | Personal | Priceless

First, thank you for writing this book. Even though I rarely write reviews after listening to, or reading a book, I felt compelled to express my appreciation, and to tell you how relevant the material subjects of your book are.

I am definitely adding this to one of a few books that I read multiples every year.

Interesting! with some bumps in the road

Oddly I felt that listening at 1.4+ speed helped the narration immensely!!
There are some interesting stories here but almost no original reporting. Most info is lifted from the books/biographies of other authors.
The parts about the author herself lack a little reflection, she talks about her creativity as a reason for success but each story about her building her business is based in having a helpful connection goop/banksy/her first sale to a collector in Paris.

I don’t see the connection between creativity and success but rather it makes me feel I need to grow my network (which is also good advice!)

If you’re interested in learning about important artists there is definitely good info here

Create

Its a joy to give some time and space to be creative.
Creativity = connection to divine

It did remind me of Zig Zag, a creativity book with exercise and some fun card games!

Creative Materpiece

A relevant and engaging book written in an inspiring way to keep you creative, motivated and ready to take on the world!

Fresh perspective and helpful case studies

Maria provides a fresh perspective on creativity and offers specific case studies to ground us in reality. This book helped me bring a new outlook on creativity to my work. You can definitely tell that Maria cares about her work and creative services. Thanks Maria!

Painful

I came to this book with high hopes, but there’s no meat here. This book is not for artist, and the author clearly isn’t artist either, nor this books teaches how to make real business.
I first saw an interview with the author, where I thought she was just blá-blá-blá to not give the “gold” of the book, so that people would buy the book. But the book it’s also just bla bla bla, going superficially around some topics. She speaks for hours but the book could be read in 10 minutes if it wasn’t the stories of other people. Maybe the book is so shallow so the person pay for her program? Maybe. Before the book I was considering of buying her program, but now, no.
It just tells short stories of some artists that got famous. I feel that she read some history of arts books and reap some paragraphs…
And is absolutely annoying the way she speaks “creativity” and soooo repetitive, I almost gave up of the book because of this, more than once. It was painful. I can never speak this word again without listening her in my head, and not in a good way. English isn’t my first language either, but is just painful to hear. The worst is the “creativity” that she reaps twice every minute of the audiobook. The editor of the book should have had fixed this issue.
In the end, the message that this book gives is: you don’t need to be creative, you just need to have rich friends, maybe a ex job in some huge company, so you can have more rich friends, and then convince them to buy your stuff and boom, you have a career in anything you want. The rest you can look on google…