Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
Published 2014 · 432 pages · 85,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Business & Self-Help, Media & Technology, Nonfiction
How hard is Creativity, Inc. to read?
Creativity, Inc. scores 17 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 22 out of 100
- Business and film industry terms. Very accessible.
- Sentence structure: 22 out of 100
- Abstraction: 28 out of 100
- Management philosophy grounded in specific Pixar stories.
- Information density: 42 out of 100
- Rich with anecdotes and management insights.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- Roughly chronological with thematic chapters.
- Symbolic density: 100 out of 100
- Pixar films as illustrations of creative principles.
- Ironic distance: 12 out of 100
- Self-aware about the paradoxes of managing creativity.
- Resolution withholding: 80 out of 100
- Each chapter provides actionable insights.
- Structural complexity: 20 out of 100
- Four parts covering Pixar's history and principles.
How Creativity, Inc. is regarded
Creativity, Inc. holds a literary regard score of 43 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.