PART 1: MASTERING CREATIVE ENERGY. Feel Qi Now -- Qi Is the Fire of Genius -- Qi Is the Real Secret of Creativity -- Basic Qi Principles -- Prepare for Better Reception: Assuming Your Full Stature -- Basic Energy Anatomy and Terminology -- Using Everyday Activities to Cultivate Your Qi -- Qi-Cultivation Practices -- Q and A: Mastering Creative Energy -- PART 2: MASTERING THE CREATIVE MINDSET. Creativity Self-Assessment -- Embrace a Creative Mindset -- Qi Cultivation to Shift from a Fixed Mindset to a Creative Mindset -- Recover Your Creative Birthright -- Qi Cultivation to Support Your Re-Geniusing -- Invite Surprise and Wonder -- Embrace Playfulness, Humor, and Laughter -- Qi Cultivation for Embracing Surprise and Humor -- Clarify Your Purpose -- Qi Cultivation for Realizing and Aligning with Your Core Purpose -- Create Your Own Logo and Motto -- Strengthen Your Confusion Endurance -- Assume chutzpah -- Be courageous and persevere -- Appreciate beauty, sensory delights, and natural wonders -- Invoke the muse -- Q&A: mastering the creative mindset -- PART 3: MASTERING THE CREATIVE PROCESS. The creative process requires different modes of thinking -- Preparation: the art of seeing the problem -- Generation: the art of nonhabitual thought -- Incubation: the art of doing nothing -- Evaluation: the art of hooking the fish -- Implementation: the art of getting it done -- Nine hats for the five phases -- Mind mapping: multipurpose creative-process tool -- Balancing two systems of thinking: fast and slow -- System 3: thinking outside of time -- Go write to the source -- Q&A mastering the creative process -- PART 4: MASTERING CREATIVE ENERGY, MINDSET, AND PROCESS: MOVING FROM FORCE TO POWER -- AFTERWARD: Who moved my qi?