UP & OUT! Creative Ways to Get Unstuck by Christopher Newcomb is a self-help book on ideation and awaking the “creative genius that is inside you.” This is the book for people who are stuck in an unsatisfied life or have lost the purpose to do something that makes them happy. Human beings are creative by nature, they like to explore new things, discover something different, and crave change every so often. When they don’t get that, their lives become stagnant and boring. This book is a gentle yet informative guide for such people to wake up their creativity and have it flowing endlessly. The author shares different strategies and tips for readers to boost their creativity and get out of situations where they feel most trapped.

UP & OUT! Creative Ways to Get Unstuck is a wonderfully direct and useful book that almost everyone will enjoy. You don’t have to be a creative professional to be able to reap the full benefits of this guide. You can be a housewife, a retired person, or simply feel like you are stuck in your current routines. Lack of goals and dreams can be disheartening for us. We need something to look forward to, something that brings excitement and change in our lives. This book is a perfect companion for such people who are looking for motivation. Christopher Newcomb shares stories and strategies that he practiced on himself first. He gives a proper guide on how to use this book and then he shares his proven strategies with a checklist, explanation, and reminders at the end of each chapter to refresh what the reader gathered from it. The narrative is smooth, simple, and easy to read, which is a bonus. This is a book that many of us need when we are stuck in a rut.

Christopher Newcomb teaches you to approach problems from many angles to get the best solution, or solutions, in Up & Out! Creative Ways to Get Unstuck. He first defines common words we would associate with creativity and clarifies their meanings. By simplifying words we use with creativity, we can now easily apply them to our lives. Creativity is a process that can be nurtured in your workplace, home, and attitude. The answers to problems are all around you, you just need to generate a solution. By altering the way you do, act, or respond to things you can get a different variation. The author inspires his readers with stories that illustrate the point he is trying to get across.
 
Up & Out! Creative Ways to Get Unstuck by Christopher Newcomb is a resourceful read that gets the reader thinking outside the limitations they place on themselves. He shows us how to erase the boundaries of a problem. The pace seems quick as he presents one flawed thinking with an alternative variation of thought. I loved the stories he used to get his point across. The solution to his aversion to frigid winters was an amazing example of how to find an answer to a problem. You see the author take a problem and break it down, and then ask questions to find the best, or second best, solution; you see how it can work in your life and your dilemmas. Overall, I learned many new formulas to apply to a problem when I am trying to find a better solution. I loved his aggressive approach to a problem and how he is relentless in searching out an answer.