So listen. Sometimes, when I am having a particularly wretched day, or even if I have time to kill before work, I like to go to the library and just walk through the shelves. IT’S RELAXING, OKAY. And it was in this fashion that I picked up The Courage to Create, by Rollo May. (I checked out a book about the black market on the same trip.)
Basically, TCtC (as the fans call it) is a collection of essays about creativity. Creativity and the unconscious, creativity and the encounter, the limits of creativity, et cetera. Old Rollo had a clinical, almost scientific approach when talking about man and creation, and it was a little weird, I won’t lie. Also, at one point there was a very uncomfortable extended sexual metaphor about the artist and the encounter.
It was an abrupt departure for me, let me just tell everyone. I’m not really a non-fiction person, especially a non-fiction philosophy-type person, and with good reason—philosophy is usually boring for me.
I did enjoy Roly-Poly’s comments on the limits of creativity. His thesis is that limits are “unavoidable and valuable”, because humans naturally struggle against the things that limit them and therefore force themselves into progress. I absolutely agree with this—I find that my imagination thrives on conflict or struggle.
Anyway. It was interestink, but not sehr, sehr interestink. However, I have big hopes for Running Guns: The Global Black Market in Small Arms.
Kelsen
2 comments:
If you liked that you should check out Discover Your Strengths. Its about how people often think they aren't creative, but they are they just don't know it?
Ok I haven't actually read it, but I have heard its really good :)
"The Courage to Create" didn't exactly blow my mind, but it was a nice change of pace. If I ever get the chance to read "Discover Your Strengths", Kelsha, I will certainly check into it.
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