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Title: Path of Least Resistance : Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life by Robert Fritz ISBN: 0-449-90337-0 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 22 April, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Focus clearly on what you want to create
Comment: The essence of the book is: decide for yourself what it is you want to CREATE in your life (work, family, lesure, etc.), objectively assess your current reality, and leverage the structural tension that comes from the discrepancy between your desired and current reality.
The Robert Fritz approach holds a lot of appeal: focus on what you want, or want to create, and frame it as a vision that ignores the extent to which it is actually possible to achieve the vision. In view of this, "I want to create a world in which everyone is well-fed" is a legitimate vision.
Another appealing aspect of thinking 'structurally' is that it urges us to think in what I would refer to as "constructive terms", without falling into the trap of being unduly optimistic, or blind to reality: for example, rather than adopting the vision of "I want to lose weight" or "I no longer want to smoke", Fritz invites us to say: "I want, and I choose, to have good health". In this way, the structures that hold us back are removed from our consciousness.
Structures elicit behaviour, in this model. Oscillating structures are those that cause us to vacillate between conflicting goals (e.g. oscillating between the desire to lose weight and the desire|need to eat), and usually get nowhere.
I see the Fritz approach as entailing the adoption of certain attitudes and practices. It is a matter of disciplining oneself to leverage one's innate desire to create, regardless of the way one earns a living. The book provides lots of examples of how artists create their work, but Fritz reminds us that the same principles can and should apply as well to, say, business managers and school teachers.
I am very glad to have read this book. I believe that it has already begun to influence how i see my future and my choices. Fritz offers a constructive way to draw out, shape and frame one's aspirations for one's life. The principles as laid out in the book are surprisingly simple and logical once they've had a few days to sink in, and yet so many of us allow ourselves to oscillate and prevaricate amid 'no-win' structures of which we are not even conscious.
Rating: 5
Summary: an empowering guide to creating the life you want.
Comment: This is the best book I've ever read about creating what you want in life. It's not a New Age book-Fritz presents very good evidence as to why affirmations and will power don't work. His thesis is that you cannot create what you desire in life until you change the underlying structures that make your life what it currently is. Changing those structures does not have to do with problem solving either. It has to do with figuring out what you do want (harder than it sounds) and then using the creative process to set in motion the forces to accomplish whatever that is. The author is a professional musician with a clear understanding of the artistic process. However, he takes this process well beyond the arts and applies it to life in general. He has worked with groups who've used these principles in foreign aid projects and business; he's also worked with individuals who have changed their personal and professional lives for the better. The point is that creativity is not just for artists-it's a human concern. If we all understood how to create rather than to just react to what life throws at us, the world would be a happier place. This is a hopeful, empowering book which everyone can benefit from.
Rating: 5
Summary: Creating vs. Problem Solving
Comment: I found this book in the laundry room of my apartment building where people sometimes leave old books and magazines for others... and I'm wondering why they threw it out with all the other business books they dumped there!
It is very interesting to read, though like many such books is a bit long-winded. It confirmed to me that my approach as a scientist and scholar is the correct one, the one most likely to lead to good science. A professor at my previous university in Australia kept pushing the view that we needed to solve "clients" problems (my field is environmental studies/science). This was at the top research university in the country. This guy was just an extreme example of the tendency both in that country and Britain (less so in the US). I knew he was wrong, that that wasn't a way to do good science. Fritz's book confirms that solving problems is rarely satisfactory in the long-term, and instead we should focus on what we want to create. If you are doing that in a field that has relevance to important social issues, solutions to people's problems will emerge as a by-product. Also that artists and great scientists do art or science primarily for the love of the thing that they create. Other motives are secondary. I know that when you are truly creative one project develops out of the previous one which is another key point he makes. His description of the artistic creative process also seems very accurate for the typical scientific project.
So in summary this is a really great book that gets it right!
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Title: Creating : A practical guide to the creative process and how to use it to create anything -a work of art, a relationship, a career or a better life. by Robert Fritz ISBN: 0449908011 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 31 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Your Life As Art by Robert Fritz ISBN: 0972553606 Publisher: Newfane Press Pub. Date: 04 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Path of Least Resistance for Managers: Designing Organizations to Succeed by Robert Fritz, Peter M. Senge ISBN: 1576750655 Publisher: Publishers' Group West Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Coaching for Performance: Growing People, Performance and Purpose by John Whitmore ISBN: 1857883039 Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Corporate Tides: The Inescapble Laws of Organizational Structure by Robert Fritz ISBN: 1881052885 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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