Amy Fries
Find solutions, energy, motivation, and the next big idea---all through the creative power of daydreaming---your most visionary state of mind.
Daydreams at Work reveals:
How daydreams help us juggle multiple goals, plan and envision, future actions, gain self-knowledge, and more.
Why Google and 3M give employees the time and space to daydream, creating new models of innovation and idea-generation.
How entrepreneurs, artists, writers, scientists, athletes, and others have used daydreams as the springboard to launch businesses, create art, invent products, and blaze new paths.
Where your daydreams are leading you through questionnaires, exercises, and discussion guides.
Book Review/s to share: • “Daydreams at Work is an inspiring book about tapping into creativity and free thinking—which is where your best ideas come from. It’s books like this that get people into the right frame of mind to not only create better lives for themselves—but to change the world!”
—Lauren Zander, co-founder of the Handel Group (HandelGroup.com), a business consulting and private coaching company.
• “I daydream; I always have, but I never thought to analyze how it works. Amy Fries has unraveled the mystery of it. Daydreams at Work offers an abundance of great stories, the science of daydreams, and a practical approach to harnessing your creativity through the most common of daily practices. The book is fascinating and affirming; it has inspired me to daydream even more!”
—Herta Feely, Author/Editor, Co-Founder Safe Kids Worldwide
• “This is an important topic at an important time. The workplace (and the world) needs more daydreamers filled with ideas and possibilities for our collective future. Amy Fries captures not only why, but provides practical real-world ways for tapping our natural creativity.”
—Nan S. Russell, corporate-workplace expert and author of Hitting Your Stride: Your Work, Your Way, HittingYourStride.com
• “Amy Fries kicks daydreaming out of the closet and shows how great innovators—Einstein and Steve Jobs—and innovative companies—3M and Google—used daydreaming to their advantages. Her skillful blend of scientific evidence, practical applications, and subtle wit convinces you that daydreaming sparks and enriches creativity whether you work in an office, a science lab, or a writer’s studio. Daydreams at Work takes you to the “middle distance,” an energy-producing and visionary place.”
—Ann Weisgarber, author of The Personal History of Rachel DuPree and nominee for the UK’s Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
• “Amy Fries asks us to daydream. What an invitation! She legitimizes ‘living the dream’ with an engaging tour of how famous brains used daydreams (Mozart’s, Jung’s, Einstein’s, others), how hers does, what brain scans reveal, and she encourages readers to get lost . . . and then found . . . in their dreams. Dream new dreams and transform them into reality, writes Fries, because ‘the middle distance’ is the wellspring of creativity. Fries writes with authority, charm, and humor and asks intriguing questions: ‘If we dream of being celebrities, what do celebrities dream about?’ But, beware train commuters: If you wish to disembark at your regular stop, wait until you get home to begin reading Daydreams at Work.”
—Ruth Levy Guyer, Haverford University bioethics professor and author of Baby at Risk (Capital Books, 2006)
Email to share: amyfries3@aol.com
