What's Your Creative Type?: Harness the Power of Your Artistic Personality

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Review What's Your Creative Type? by Meta Wagner (Seal, [April] 2017) looks at how personality affects creative style, helping readers use that knowledge to be more innovative in any pursuit.--Publisher's Weekly, October 14, 2016"Meta Wagner leads us all on a fun, inspiring, and practical trip through our own psyches with What's Your Creative Type?--convincing us as we go that the real secret to increasing your creative expression is not obsessing over the process or our tools, but understanding first our motivation to create."--Scott Barry Kaufman, author of Wired to Create"The author, Meta Wagner, is brilliant with this topic! An early read showed a great balance between meaningful academia, total fun, and extraordinary tools for self-examination."--Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Widow of Wall Street"The stories of famous creators are compelling and the lessons learnt can illuminate for you a path to unfold the magic of your unique creative potential."--Sanjiv Chopra, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Author, and Speaker"Every artist must figure out exactly what drives them to create before they can make the impact they were born to make. Meta Wagner's book proves that self discovery can be a real pleasure: lively yet insightful, practical and compassionate, it's a must-read for creatives of all ages."--Camille DeAngelis, author of Life Without Envy: Ego Management for Creative People Read more About the Author Meta Wagner writes about pop culture and has most notably been a contributor to the Boston Globe opinion pages and a columnist for PopMatters. Her commentary and feature articles have also appeared in the Huffington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Salon, Boston Globe Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal's custom content. When she's not writing, Meta is molding young minds as an adjunct professor at Emerson College and Boston University. She developed and teaches a "cult favorite" seminar called "Creativity in Context" (the basis for this book) along with classes in creative non-fiction and communications writing. She has also taught at Wheelock College and Grub Street, Boston's largest independent writing center. Meta was previously in executive positions in the marketing and public relations fields and received multiple awards from professional organizations. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, where she was chosen as the student commencement speaker. Read more See all Editorial Reviews