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Title: The Courage to Create by Rollo May ISBN: 0-393-31106-6 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Call to Engage
Comment: Some books age like vintage wines, gathering a film of dust that
disuse protects until that happy "discovery" by an old
friend. Rollo May's "The Courage to Create" was written in
1975 - in a time when the presence of the atom bomb created an anxiety
that prevented people to create for a future that was unsure, at best.
Now in 2000, twenty five years of cosmic angst have intensified to a
fear of the limits of even a glimpse of a future and it is reaffirming
to return to Rollo May to regain the courage to "rage against the
dying of the light." In eloquent but inordinately accessible
language May surveys the entire concept of Creativity with terse, well
selected passages from Plato and the ancients to Cezanne to Tillich
and Kierkegard and Thomas Wolfe. This is not a "How To" book
or self-help rapid- read to solve superficial problems. This little
book, when read slowly and thoughtfully, guides us through concepts
that allow us to regain a state of positive thinking in a time when it
is far more popular to dwell on our day to day foibles and transient
misjudgements. The discovery of the self is his most important
driver, yet he doesn't stop there. Taking that newly discovered self
and building the courage to acknowledge encounters, engagements,
epiphanies, and a usable acceptance of limits - this sounds so simple
in a review, but when May has your complete attention, more happens to
us than just learning about creativity: we learn about really
living. ....
Rating: 5
Summary: Experiencing that creative 'Aha!' moment
Comment: This book, while being a psychology book, is not for psychologists. Its essentially for everyone else; for all those whom deem themselves creative but dont know how to create. The title 'Courage to Create' epitomizes the core understanding of what is true creativity. In a nutshell, author Rollo May explains that to have courage is to move forward "in spite of despair." This is where creativity is borne out of: out of despair. May then cites many examples of artists, mathematicians, musicians, and other forms where creative thought can be applied. He does not give the read a step by step process in how one can apply techniques, but empowers the reader with an attitude. The attitude of perseverance, encounter relationship, and expression of the deepest levels of our psyche. To be in constant search of ourselves is to be, in one sense, in despair and yet, to challenge that deparity is to have the courage. And by expressing that challenge, one begins to understand creativity. When we have worked and overworked ourselves, then frustration ensues where we leave our work. In this silence, our unconscious is still at work. Then we look bright-eyed and say 'Aha!'. We have created. Author May also includes other aspects that will be helpful to the reader in gaining more awareness and insight to anxiety levels and what the artist may be suppressing emotionally or cognitively. A wonderful book I highly reccomend that will challenge your limitations.
Rating: 5
Summary: Haven't Read It Either, But I'm Pretty Sure I'm Gona Love It
Comment: Saw this author's name and just fell in love with it! Rollo! Anyway, since Amazon allows reviews by people who have not read the book, I thought I'd chime in too! I am sure I'm going to love this book, if I remember to get it from the library. My philosophy of life is too boring to bother with, but I enjoyed hearing from the others. Well, except for one golden rule: buy all books from independant booksellers.
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Title: The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology by Rollo May, May Rollo ISBN: 0393312402 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Meaning of Anxiety by Rollo May ISBN: 0393314561 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Freedom and Destiny by Rollo May ISBN: 0393318427 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Love and Will by Rollo May ISBN: 0385285906 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention of Art by Brewster Ghiselin ISBN: 0520054539 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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