There are plenty of books available out there to read about creativity, Amazon has a whole section dedicated to it, with over 5,000 titles currently available. To narrow it down a bit, here are our top picks to get you started on your journey of creativity.

What do they have in common?  If you pick up a few, we think you’ll agree: according to some of the world’s most successful creative minds, creativity is something we all possess. These 40 books teach your how to reach out and grab it.

Lazy thinking is the bane of creativity. In Thinking Fast and Slow, Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman talks about how there are really two different thinking systems within the brain. System 1 lets us make fast decisions based on intuition, while system 2 is more deliberative and slower. Sometimes quick, emotional decisions are great for creativity but often we need to take a set back and reassess, bringing the second system into play. Kahneman explores different exercises you can do to make sure that for any creative decision you make, or any creative thinking you do, you are accessing the correct part of your brain.

Throughout this series on creativity, we have always said that tenacity and determination are just as important to creativity as that initial bright spark. InMaking Ideas Happen, Scott Belsky takes this a step further and gives you concrete strategies for realizing your idea and developing the skills to make them happen time and time again.