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17th out of 53 books
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90 voters
At Left Brain, Turn Right
by
Anthony Meindl (Goodreads Author)
15 Weeks and 25 Ways to Unleash Your Inner Brando, Einstein, and Shakespeare:
The most successful and creative people in the world don't possess anything different than you. They have no magic formula or special secret. They've simply prevented the left hemisphere of their brain - the "logical," analytical side - from sabotaging their life. Whether you're a ballerina or ban...more
The most successful and creative people in the world don't possess anything different than you. They have no magic formula or special secret. They've simply prevented the left hemisphere of their brain - the "logical," analytical side - from sabotaging their life. Whether you're a ballerina or ban...more
Paperback, 1st, 256 pages
Published
2012
by Meta Creative
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As most of my friends can tell you, self-help books are not my usual reading fare. In fact, by and large, I consider them a rip off. They are often platitudes wrapped in various mumbo-jumbo and try to claim they are the only answer, etc. I just don't understand taking generalized advice from a complete stranger that doesn't know anything about your situation and state of mind.
This book caught my eye when I was looking through the First Reads give-away on Goodreads, a social network for book love...more
This book caught my eye when I was looking through the First Reads give-away on Goodreads, a social network for book love...more
I received this book for free from the Good Reads First Reads program.
How do you write a quick review on a book that is designed to take 15 weeks to complete? I decided to read straight through the book and look at the text and activities through an adult education lens. The book does a great job of reinforcing concepts with weekly activities. The concepts and activities also build on each other as you work toward the goal of freeing up your creative forces by reducing the influence of your left...more
How do you write a quick review on a book that is designed to take 15 weeks to complete? I decided to read straight through the book and look at the text and activities through an adult education lens. The book does a great job of reinforcing concepts with weekly activities. The concepts and activities also build on each other as you work toward the goal of freeing up your creative forces by reducing the influence of your left...more
I was lucky enough to receive a first-reads copy of this book...15 Weeks and 25 Ways to Unleash Your Inner Brando, Einstein, and Shakespeare!!! Watch out world....I'll be back later to let you know if it worked for me.
A good reminder of common sense practices that any reader could apply to reduce those creative walls that we build. The activities can also be helpful.
A good reminder of common sense practices that any reader could apply to reduce those creative walls that we build. The activities can also be helpful.
Don't get sucked in like I did by all the glowing reviews! I'm so sorry that I spent money on this book. It's going into the trash. The advice is not that different from suggestions made in the Artist's Way series (go without distractions, visualization, meditate, etc.) I wouldn't have minded the similarity if the writing was on par with those books. Instead, there are several typos, poorly constructed sentences, lots of fragments, Arbitrary Capitalization (see what I mean? I'm showing, not tell...more
This is for My Book Club on August 6th with Anthony Meindl. Love reading about creativity.
I won this book on a goodreads.com giveaway. I thought it was excellent. I really think any person graduating high school or college should read this so they don't fall prey to losing their creative self once they enter the "real world". I think this is a book that should be picked up and read once a year as a reminder to not forget who you are on the inside. This book would make a great gift and I plan to hand out several copies! The homework assignments were a big help to improving inner stren...more
This is a good self-help book. I don't often read in this genre. It came up in a list of books about brain research somewhere; the description was intriguing as it spoke to using brain research to enhance creative thought. Somehow my brain connected something I'd just seen about Daniel Kahneman's work with something about fMRI work, and I formed the impression that this would be a book that described techniques one could use to push thinking processes into the right hemisphere on a thought-by-th...more
I'd have rated this one higher, but the suggestions in this book are things that I am in the practice of doing already. Good suggestions, sure, but I was hoping for something new. My bad, I should have looked at the table of contents first.
I think it is a good thing that it is laid out in a way to practice these things. Books like this should not be rushed through cover to cover, but are designed so that you can take you time with them and make habits of the suggestions. A good idea, one, I thin...more
I think it is a good thing that it is laid out in a way to practice these things. Books like this should not be rushed through cover to cover, but are designed so that you can take you time with them and make habits of the suggestions. A good idea, one, I thin...more
This is nowhere near what I thought it would be. Extremely disappointed. It's all a bunch of common sense that we just fail to put into practice. And, what's with all the 'acting' examples?
It's basically an artsy-fartsy "The Secret".
It's basically an artsy-fartsy "The Secret".
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Maybe this is to my own fault, but I wasn't expecting this novel to be a "enrich your life in fifteen weeks."
Who really has that much time to dedicate to one book. And its not like its intricately written and really the answer to my life.
I try to always push my way through books that I win through giveaways because I want to give honest feedback, and honestly.... I just couldn't finish it...
Someone who likes reading about how to enrich their lives may think differently though.
Who really has that much time to dedicate to one book. And its not like its intricately written and really the answer to my life.
I try to always push my way through books that I win through giveaways because I want to give honest feedback, and honestly.... I just couldn't finish it...
Someone who likes reading about how to enrich their lives may think differently though.
excellent ideas and inspiration to turn off the negative ego, and self limiting thoughts and feelings. The boom made me feel good about being me and boosted my confidence where needed.
I stopped reading all of the highlighted quotes and didn't feel like I missed out on anything. I didn't read one chapter and do homework per week. I just ploughed through the book and did abbreviated versions of the homework or will go back and do them later.
I stopped reading all of the highlighted quotes and didn't feel like I missed out on anything. I didn't read one chapter and do homework per week. I just ploughed through the book and did abbreviated versions of the homework or will go back and do them later.
It was a decent read
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Anthony Meindl is an award-winning writer, producer, director and actor.
As Artistic Director of Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop (AMAW) in Los Angeles - where the 'right brain rules' - he is endlessly inspired by his students' fearless creativity. AMAW is the #1 acting studio in Los Angeles. Voted Best Scene Study and Best Cold Read by Backstage Magazine 2011. AMAW is also located in New York and...more
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As Artistic Director of Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop (AMAW) in Los Angeles - where the 'right brain rules' - he is endlessly inspired by his students' fearless creativity. AMAW is the #1 acting studio in Los Angeles. Voted Best Scene Study and Best Cold Read by Backstage Magazine 2011. AMAW is also located in New York and...more
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