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Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

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Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

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Hugh MacLeod's acclaimed blog Gaping Void draws 1.5 million visitors a month, and his ebook, How to Be Creative, has been downloaded more than a million times. In Ignore Everybody, he expands his thoughts about unleashing creativity in a world that often thwarts it.

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Author:	Hugh MacLeod
Hardcover:	176 pages
Publisher:	Portfolio Hardcover
Publication Date:	June 11, 2009
Language:	English
ISBN:	159184259X
Package Length:	8.3 inches
Package Width:	5.5 inches
Package Height:	0.8 inches
Package Weight:	0.65 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 81 reviews

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ISBN13: 9781591842590
Condition: New
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Great little book (ignoring the swearing) Jul 23, 2010
Great concepts and really fun ideas that got me thinking outside the box with my marketing & business strategies. While I really enjoyed this book, I didn't appreciate how much the "f" word was used and felt like I had to screen the pages a bit. It wouldn't be something I would comfortably loan to just anyone unless I was sure they wouldn't be offended by the occasional swearing.

If Hugh's advice really helps you, you're probably not a creative person anyway... Jul 18, 2010
Hugh MacLeod's audio book Ignore Everybody contains some good ideas to be sure. The main problem is that most of the ideas expressed are so pedestrian that they amount to basically common sense. The other major downside to the audio version specifically is that the narrator's voice is extremely annoying, especially when he is reading Hugh's comic (which don't hold up at all without the drawings). My advice: read his blog, save your money.

Creativity Truths - Distilled and Potent! Jul 18, 2010
If you really want to know the truth about creativity, from a very personal perspective, this is the book for you. Hugh lists 39 ways he has become creative, and how you can to! Very insightful and useful, even as a pep talk, for creative individuals. Highly recommended.

Read the library copy twice, then came back to buy my own Jul 08, 2010
I don't normally pile on when a book has more than 20 reviews already, but the distribution of reaction here is a bit unusual so I thought I'd add one more five-star vote. I love this book. I've looked at it a dozen times in the bookstore and never carried it out; kept thinking I could get it all for free. I follow Hugh's blog. I am a professional artist. I know this stuff.

And I can't be reminded enough. I read the book straight through, then reread Orbiting the Giant Hairball, which covers some of the same material in a corporate setting, and then back to Ignore Everybody, pretty much in one evening. I wanted to see how the two books covered the territory. They're similar, and if you hated Hairball, stay away from MacLeod. I'm juiced. I'm supported, encouraged, permissioned, understood.

There are, I suppose, creative people who are surrounded by encouraging, supportive communities, people who have adequate sales from their creative output (and sometimes that's a regular paycheck) to never worry if they're doing the right work (or partners with good benefit programs), who live free of the fear of having their ideas knocked off on another continent. There must be such people. I've never met them, but they must exist.

For the rest of us, there are books. Ignore Everybody is the latest. Art and Fear is my favorite, the one I carry when I fly because it's small and can be finished in the amount of time it takes to fly anywhere. Ignore Everybody will sit right next to it on the shelf. Hairball is there, although I'm not in corporate anymore. Jessica Hagy sits on the same shelf, and If you only knew how much I smell you, and George Leonard's Mastery, and Brian Andreas.

It's not clear to me why this book was shelved, and perhaps sold, as a business creativity book. I would have expected to find it closer to The Artist's Way. On one hand, creativity is creativity, but on the other, there's a difference between making art and making business. Ignore Everybody is more about the personal elements of creativity--getting your head and your behavior out of the way.

Michael Pollan sums his own work up in seven words--eat food, mostly plants, not too much--and doesn't let that stop him selling yet another book. What does it matter that MacLeod can do the same thing?

Now go to your studio and make stuff.

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Trite and Boring Jul 01, 2010
this book is completely trite and boring. its very short and is just a collection of cookie cutter pieces of advice. I feel like I've been ripped off!