LEGO Build Every Day: Ignite Your Creativity and Find Your Flow

by Alec Posta

A collection of inspirational, bite-sized lessons on creativity and life taught through LEGO® brick building.

A handful of LEGO® bricks can change the way you see the world. They can ignite your creativity, help you solve problems, focus, and find your flow. In LEGO® Build Every Day, Master Model builder Alec Posta show readers how to build their way through problems—by using LEGO techniques to solve real life challenges. Filled with bite-sized lessons on creativity, perspective, and process, each illustrated chapter explores a LEGO concept and follows with a building prompt to put the idea into practice. Its bold typographic design and thought-provoking topics and prompts make LEGO® Build Every Day a thoughtful gift for graduates of all ages, or anyone in need of inspiration at a milestone moment. What might you discover about yourself by simply sitting down and building something every day?

BITE-SIZED TOPICS: Readers can dip in and out or read all 22 mini-chapters in one sitting.

IDEAS INTO ACTION: Each inspirational topic is followed by a building prompt or activity, to motivate readers to put what they've learned to work, right away.

INSPIRATION FOR LIFE: The lessons in this book starts with LEGO building concepts, but translate to all parts of life—whether your writing, drawing, composing, acting, competing, or working toward a goal at school, work, or home. This book is meant to help readers overcome creative challenges of all kinds.

BOLD DESIGN: Each chapter is a visual treat, with bold typography, colors, and a modern take on iconic LEGO bricks and minifigures. The perfect LEGO gift for grads, dads, and all LEGO lovers of all ages.

GO BACK TO THE LEGO BIN: Rediscover what you can do with the bricks you already own. You can build something every day-no new sets needed!

Perfect for: Ages 12+, LEGO fans, adult LEGO fans, graduates, parents, dads

LEGO, the LEGO logo, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2022 The LEGO Group. All rights reserved.

Genres: Nonfiction

96 pages, Hardcover

Published May 17, 2022

Reviews

[DJ_Keyser · Rating 2 out of 5]

An enticement to approach life like a Lego build… would that it were so simple. It’s rudimentary stuff; slim pickings for Lego fans, and the prognosis no better for those searching for brick-based creative enlightenment.

[Joanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not really about Lego building, wink wink nudge nudge, but actually this one is an inspirational read for any creative project that you pursue.

That being said, it might have been more interesting had actual photos of the Lego pieces that he’s referring were included. Not being a Lego aficionado, i wasn’t sure about the lingo; i.e, what a 2x3 or a 2x4 or a minilander were—although I had a rough idea I guess. But it would have been a good opportunity to learn. (Probably a licensing thing, but the Lego logo is on the cover hmm🤔.

But anyhoo, a nice read with a valuable reminder that there’s no one way to build a duck..!

[Bookworm · Rating 3 out of 5]

I saw the title and sound like a fun little book. I used to play with Lego, still enjoy looking at sets and creations (even if I don't build myself, etc) and thought this could be a fun read. In this book you can find a bit of self-help advice and thoughts centering around Lego and what Lego represents/does/etc.

It's a self-help book packaged with Lego-related language. Build a little every day, flip the piece upside down, etc. It's a short lesson with a 1-2 or so page chapter plus a nice picture or two that really applies the concepts of Lego onto your everyday life.

There is not much else to it. If you understand the first chapter you get what the rest of the book is like. It is also not really Lego-related in the sense that it is not about the history or sets, etc. So if you are looking for something that is actually talking about the bricks and pieces, this is not it.

But if you're someone who likes Lego and could use a pick me up, this might be a fun book for you. If you have a Lego lover in your life they might also enjoy the book too as a gift. As it was, I was fine with getting this as a bargain buy but if I had known, I would have just borrowed this from the library instead.

[Steven Jaeger · Rating 3 out of 5]

The concept of this book is nice. The quality of the physical book is great. The book does a good job of finding ways to inspire creativity, especially by creating limitations that force unusual approaches to creativity. I think it is definitely for a specific crowd. There is a lot of text, which makes it less than ideal for smaller children. At the same time, unless you are an adult that is really into legos specifically, I think there are better books that accomplish similar things. If you are, however, someone in their preteens to early twenties who still uses legos, and may even have dreams of building things with legos for a living (there are in fact people who do it), then this book was made for you.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

At its surface this book is about how to understand the art of Lego building, but in reality you can apply the advice to all kinds of art. This book shares lessons through experiences as a LEGOLand Builder on how to approach failure, the importance of cleaning up our work areas, stealing like a true artist, how to make best use with what you have, and tips on how to not get too attached to your creation.

[July · Rating 4 out of 5]

DNF. It was a good attempt to get me to understand how to play Lego. I wish I'd learned how as a girl, and this was to help me learn. The truth is there are no rules to playing Lego. I occasionally build with the kids' Lego, and I enjoy the creativity. I don't need a book to teach me, though it did give me a different sense of confidence to build.

[April · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fun little self-help style inspirational read. Written by a professional LEGO designer - yes, he assures readers it is a real job - he shares life lessons and encouragement through the backdrop of tiny LEGO bricks. Each inspirational nugget ends with a LEGO building challenge aligned with that chapter’s topic.

[Ineke van Vlimmeren · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book. And not only for Adult Fans of Lego (AFOL), because, whilst telling the reader what you can make with the famous bricks, it also shows you how you find yourself in the creative process. Lego lessons and life lessons in one: build every day is solid advice.

[Readersaurus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Got some great ideas for adult LEGO Club!

[Dillon Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fun little book that I think people could use to help inspire work in other hobbies outside of just legos.