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• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 01    The information overload and the way it’s changing us
• The scale of the overload
• Disproportionate effect of overload on millennial adults
• How overload is changing the media
• How news is changing
• How the world is actually getting better
• No information is correlated with ‘nothing happening’
• Disproportionate effect of overload on women
• Conclusion
• 02    How did we allow ourselves to become so overloaded?
• Competition and confidence
• What are the problems in the system?
• What should education be trying to do?
• Two worlds, still too far apart
• How it can be different
• Art used in science
• Conclusion
• 03    The ‘always on’ environment and its effect
• Understanding the Type A
• The meeting
• The greeting
• Office layouts
• Conclusion
• 04    Your brain and how to use it
• What you are capable of
• The impact of overload on the structures
• The left-brain process
• The right-brain process
• The left and right in history and culture
• So is the left brain, right brain a dead end?
• The awkward interview
• The boring presentation
• When things go wrong: the link between creativity, mental illness and depression
• Flow and pulse: the way to sustainable creativity
• Conclusion
• 05    Sleep matters
• The link between technology and sleep
• The role of light
• The link between technology and general well-being
• Conclusion
• 06    Where great ideas come from
• The ‘to-do list’ versus the ‘to-be list’
• The sense of flow
• The big inhibitors
• Fear
• Mastery and failure
• The power of art
• Truth, beauty and aesthetics
• Conclusion
• 07    Generating better ideas
• Generating better ideas: it’s all about you
• The Eight Creative Traits (QED3RPT)
• Generating better ideas: it’s all about others
• Training principles
• So, what else do you need to know?
• Taking others into the zone
• The Rise Academy at LEWIS
• The Rise Four I’s Creative Cycle
• Conclusion
• 08    How leaders apply creativity
• A business success that doesn’t understand business
• Fighter
• The outsider’s insider
• An unlikely CEO
• ‘You can’t polish a turd’
• Expelled for reading too much
• Just your average cat-breeding, stargazing, portrait-painting, military reservist politician
• Complete focus
• The power of logic and emotion in leading the Royal Navy
• Conclusion
• Confession
• Index
• Copyright