*read for the 2016 reading challenge: A self-improvement book* 
 The only reason why I picked up this book is for my reading challenge to read a self-improvement book, and this one was promoted at my library as a popular book in that category. 
 When I started this book, it read more like an autobiography to me. Even though that was not was I was expecting, I was willing to go with it. However, I feel like the author is constantly talking about 'a friend' that experienced x, or happens to be working in a certain business. It felt a lot like name dropping to me and it was very repetitive. Besides that, the author kept talking about 'that other popular book she wrote' and how 'overwhelmed and surprised she was by its success'. That is great, of course you can draw some life lessons from such an experience and share those with your readers. But it just kept being mentioned to a point where it annoyed me. A last thing that annoyed me and felt like a cliche was when the author was trying to motivate the reader to think a certain way, using a lot of exclamation marks. It felt like I was being yelled at through the pages to be convinced of something that I may not even agree with. It was very preachy. 
 I read about half of the book when I just got so bored and annoyed and I realized that I hadn't learned a thing yet about how to foster my creativity. So I had to put it down, I think my creativeness and inspiration will be just fine without this book.