#VSSER25 #WeekendBookReview
🎙️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit, and this is your Weekend Book Review — where bold ideas meet curious minds, and every page is an invitation to think just a little more creatively than before.
Today, we dive into a book that doesn’t just ask you to read — it dares you to do. To experiment. To explore. To observe. To stretch your imagination like it’s a muscle you never realized was waiting for a good workout.
The book? “Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways.”
The mind behind this brilliant collection? Sarah Stein Greenberg, Executive Director of the legendary Stanford d.school.
Sarah isn’t just a leader — she’s a cultivator of creativity. At the d.school, she helps artists, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs — and all of us in between — rediscover the design mindset we often leave behind in childhood. With a background that blends history and business, she brings a grounded, thoughtful approach to the wild world of creative learning. Her mission? Help us unlock the innovation already inside us.
And this book is her toolkit.
With over 80 exercises — from How to Talk to Strangers to Expert Eyes to Designing Tools for Teams — this isn’t just a how-to guide. It’s a how-to-live guide. It’s about learning by doing, failing forward, and designing better questions before rushing into answers.
You’ll meet voices from IDEO, Google, choreographers, artists, educators — a global chorus of creative minds who remind us that uncertainty isn't the enemy — it’s the playground.
So here’s the curious question we’ll leave you with:
👉 What if creativity wasn’t something rare and elusive… but something we could train for, like breathwork or balance?
Big thanks to Sarah Stein Greenberg and the incredible team at the Stanford d.school for giving us a book that makes doing the lesson.
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Now let’s open the cover... and unleash a little creative chaos.
Reference
Greenberg, S. S. (2021). Creative acts for curious people: How to think, create, and lead in unconventional ways. Ten Speed Press. https://dschool.stanford.edu/shop/creative-acts-for-curious-people
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