From Chaos to Creativity

From Chaos to Creativity
Author: Jessie L. Kwak
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1621064107

Art and writing can be the most fulfilling part of our lives. But it's often difficult to make space for it in our day-to-day existence, especially if we're not at the point yet where creating it is our job. Sometimes we have so many ideas it’s difficult to keep them all organized, much less maintaining a creative schedule or dedicated workspace. With all the clutter overwhelming your scattered brain (not to mention your desk), it's all too easy to fall into procrastination and disarray. From Chaos to Creativity is a series of glowing beacon. Jessie L. Kwak has written a Getting Things Done for artists and writers, drawing on her experience as a professional copywriter with a novel-writing habit, and from interviews with other authors, artists, musicians, and designers, to teach you how to focus on the good ideas, manage your project, make time in your life, and execute your passions to completion. Make great art by channeling your chaotic creative force into productive power and let the world see what you're capable of!

Conquering the Chaos of Creativity

Conquering the Chaos of Creativity
Author: Doug Patton
Publisher: Patton Design
Total Pages: 670
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736081112

During the course of over 40 years of innovation, inventor Doug Patton put pen to paper to inspire others by communicating his unique creative problem-solving process. This process is an extraordinary tool for those who aspire to conquer creative challenges, feel stuck due to their circumstances, or even feel they lack creativity completely. Topics include: Creative Problem-Solving - the solution is inherent in the problem Surrounding the problem - define the problem statement Creativity Gravity - the gravity of powerful ideas Visionary Leadership - problem-solving in a group Explore & Refine - the theme of invention Explore & Refine - simultaneous multi-path problem-solving Immerse Your Point of View - transform your imagination Brainwash Yourself - unlock your potential The chapters in Conquering the Chaos of Creativity, when combined, create a new dialectic of cultural language-one of creativity-based communication and discovery. On each page, Patton communicates that the potential of your creativity is limited only by the freedom and scope of your imagination, calling you to free your mind and actualize your dreams. Are you feeling creative already? Connect and interact with Doug at PattonDesign.com and ConqueringTheChaosofCreativity.com

Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness

Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness
Author: Rupert Sheldrake
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2001-11-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1594777713

Three of the most original thinkers of our time explore issues that call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life. • A wide-ranging investigation of the ecology of inner and outer space, the role of chaos theory in the dynamics of human creation, and the rediscovery of traditional wisdom. In this book of "trialogues," the late psychedelic visionary and shamanologist Terence McKenna, acclaimed biologist and originator of the morphogenetic fields theory Rupert Sheldrake, and mathematician and chaos theory scientist Ralph Abraham explore the relationships between chaos and creativity and their connection to cosmic consciousness. Their observations call into question our current views of reality, morality, and the nature of life in the universe. The authors challenge the reader to the deepest levels of thought with wide-ranging investigations of the ecology of inner and outer space, the role of chaos in the dynamics of human creation, and the resacralization of the world. Among the provocative questions the authors raise are: Is Armageddon a self-fulfilling prophecy? Are we humans the imaginers or the imagined? Are the eternal laws of nature still evolving? What is the connection between physical light and the light of consciousness? Part ceremony, part old-fashioned intellectual discussion, these trialogues are an invitation to a new understanding of what Jean Houston calls "the dreamscapes of our everyday waking life."

The Mind of the Artist

The Mind of the Artist
Author: William Todd Schultz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-12-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0197611095

"How does one get to be an artist? How does one get to be anything at all? It's not as if we come into the world with pre-set destinies, or do we? and if we do, what's actually baked in, what's learned, what's a product of circumstance? Jackson Pollock started by painting Jungian archetypes in what are called his psychoanalytic drawings. He moved on to Picassoesque figurative work, as in "Guardians of the Secret" and "Moon Woman Cuts the Circle." Then, one average day, he threw a canvas on the floor. He became, miraculously, Jack the Dripper. What he'd done was so unforeseen, so puzzling, legend has it he turned to his partner Lee Krasner (herself a painter) and asked, "Is this art?""--

Enabling Creative Chaos

Enabling Creative Chaos
Author: Katherine Kang-Ning Chen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Art
ISBN:

In the summer of 2008, nearly fifty thousand people traveled to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to participate in the countercultural arts event Burning Man. Founded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival presents unique challenges to its organizers. Over four years Katherine K. Chen regularly participated in organizing efforts to safely and successfully create a temporary community in the middle of the desert under the hot August sun. Enabling Creative Chaos tracks how a small, underfunded group of organizers transformed into an unconventional corporation with a ten-million-dollar budget and two thousand volunteers. Over the years, Burning Man’s organizers have experimented with different management models; learned how to recruit, motivate, and retain volunteers; and developed strategies to handle regulatory agencies and respond to media coverage. This remarkable evolution, Chen reveals, offers important lessons for managers in any organization, particularly in uncertain times.

Tango from Chaos to Creativity

Tango from Chaos to Creativity
Author: Jean Pollack
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2010-10-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1453572503

Jean Pollack’s first book chronicles the story of a dissociative man who meets his future therapist at a ballroom dancing event. The reader is invited to therapy sessions where his intriguing and often harrowing story of abuse is told. The way his mind works reveals stark imagery, yet even when the feelings elicited are complex the reader wants to understand the patient’s troubled world. His uplifting story of abuse to integration through healing and dance is told by his therapist through her client’s eyes. This book is important and progressive.

Creative Acts for Curious People

Creative Acts for Curious People
Author: Sarah Stein Greenberg
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1984858173

WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • “A delightful, compelling book that offers a dazzling array of practical, thoughtful exercises designed to spark creativity, help solve problems, foster connection, and make our lives better.”—Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author and host of the Happier podcast In an era of ambiguous, messy problems—as well as extraordinary opportunities for positive change—it’s vital to have both an inquisitive mind and the ability to act with intention. Creative Acts for Curious People is filled with ways to build those skills with resilience, care, and confidence. At Stanford University’s world-renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, aka “the d.school,” students and faculty, experts and seekers bring together diverse perspectives to tackle ambitious projects; this book contains the experiences designed to help them do it. A provocative and highly visual companion, it’s a definitive resource for people who aim to draw on their curiosity and creativity in the face of uncertainty. Teeming with ideas about discovery, learning, and leading the way through unknown creative territory, Creative Acts for Curious People includes memorable stories and more than eighty innovative exercises. Curated by executive director Sarah Stein Greenberg, after being honed in the classrooms of the d.school, these exercises originated in some of the world’s most inventive and unconventional minds, including those of d.school and IDEO founder David M. Kelley, ReadyMade magazine founder Grace Hawthorne, innovative choreographer Aleta Hayes, Google chief innovation evangelist Frederik G. Pferdt, and many more. To bring fresh approaches to any challenge–world changing or close to home–you can draw on exercises such as Expert Eyes to hone observation skills, How to Talk to Strangers to foster understanding, and Designing Tools for Teams to build creative leadership. The activities are at once lighthearted, surprising, tough, and impactful–and reveal how the hidden dynamics of design can drive more vibrant ways of making, feeling, exploring, experimenting, and collaborating at work and in life. This book will help you develop the behaviors and deepen the mindsets that can turn your curiosity into ideas, and your ideas into action.

Creative Clarity

Creative Clarity
Author: Jon Kolko
Publisher:
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2017-10-15
Genre: Creative ability in business
ISBN: 9780978853815

Everyone wants to turn their company into a creative power-house, but few understand how to do it. In Creative Clarity, best-selling author Jon Kolko will teach you how to manage the complexity and chaos of creativity, as you bring it into your organization.

Chaos and Control

Chaos and Control
Author: Desy Safan-Gerard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 042984106X

This book explores the role of chaos and control in the creative process as well as the difference between talent and creativity. Part One describes explores some of the common biases and pitfalls in the analysis and therapy of creative people, the role of the accidental in creative work, the nature of creative blocks, passion and its absence, as well as the problem of being able to exercise one's freedom. The author describes the special needs of creative patients, the common problems arising in therapy, its solutions, and, most importantly, the analyst's distinctive role when dealing with such patients. She also probes into the role of narcissism, neurosis, and psychosis on creative work.