Books
A curated collection of insightful reads and creative resources from our collection.
This book gathers first-person voices and reflective framing around creativity expressed in art, work, teaching, care, leadership, community-building, and personal life. The book helps readers see creativity in places they might not have realized it before and offers language for the forms it takes beyond the usual “artist only” story.
Books by Tracy Cooper, PhD
Thrill: Embracing the Creative Paradox of Sensitivity and Sensation Seeking is a research-based guide for people who feel deeply and still hunger for novelty, intensity, and a fuller life. Drawing on Dr. Tracy Cooper’s original creativity research, this second edition explores how sensitivity and sensation seeking interact—and how that powerful tension can become a source of insight, originality, and a life that fits who you are.
Thrill: The High Sensation Seeking Highly Sensitive Person
This book explores the uncommon overlap of high sensation seeking and high sensitivity, two traits often assumed to be incompatible. It draws on real lives to show how people with this combination navigate risk, depth, and intensity, and how they build structures that let them keep saying yes to life without burning out. It offers language and framing for a group that is frequently misunderstood even within sensitivity conversations.
Empowering the Sensitive Male Soul
This book focuses on sensitive men in a culture that often misreads both sensitivity and masculinity. It traces the tensions they live with — between inner depth and outer expectation — and offers a path toward voice, self-definition, and agency. The aim is not to change who sensitive men are, but to help them inhabit their lives more fully and speak from the center of who they have always been.
Thrive: The Highly Sensitive Person and Career
Thrive looks at work and vocation through the lens of high sensitivity. It examines how sensitive people experience workplaces, leadership, and meaning-making at work, and what conditions allow them to do well without flattening themselves. The book offers practical guidance on choosing roles, shaping environments, and building a work life that fits a more finely tuned nervous system.
Visual Quotient — Dr. Michele Mercer
Visual Quotient looks at how we perceive, interpret, and respond to visual information, and how those differences shape experience and decision-making. Dr. Michele Mercer explores visual processing as a meaningful dimension of human variation rather than a minor preference, connecting it to creativity, learning, and everyday life. The book invites readers to better understand their own visual styles and to design environments that work with, rather than against, the way they see.
