The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life, Revised and Expanded discusses how humans can find inspiration in their own lives to drive creative process. This book discusses that by understanding the concept of structure, we can reorder the structural make-up of our lives; this idea helps clear the way to the path of least resistance that will lead to the manifestation of our most deeply held desires. This text will be of great use to individuals who seek to use their own lives as the driving force of their creative process. Inhalt Front Cover 1 The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction 12 Part One: Fundamental Principle 16 Chapter 1.
The Path of Least Resistance 18 Moving Along the Path 19 Three Insights 19 What Is Structure? 21 All Structures Contain Movement 22 Structure Determines Behavior 22 A Life of Oscillation 24 Structure and the Creative Process 26 Artists Don't Know What They Know 27 Chapter 2. The Reactive- Responsive Orientation 29 Your Childhood 29 What You Learn Growing Up 32 Responsive Behavior 33 The Reactive Orientation 34 The Reactive-Responsive Orientation: 'Nice' People and 'Difficult' People 36 The Premise of Powerlessness 36 Looking to the External 37 Looking to the Internal-External 39 Circumstantial Stimuli 39 Avoiding the Circumstances 40 The Preemptive Strike 42 On the Defensive 44 A Closed and Circular System 45 Chapter 3. Creating Is No Problem— Problem Solving Is Not Creating 46 Problems, Problems 48 The problem 49 Life in the Problem Track 49 The Business of Problems 50 'Creative' Problem Solving 51 'Freeing the Wonders of Your Mind' 51 The Vital Question 53 Is This Problem Relevant? 55 Sigmund Freud Was a Doctor 56 A Clear Distinction 56 Chapter 4.
Creating 61 A Lesson from the Ghetto 61 Creating Is Not a Product of the Circumstances 63 The Steps 65 Chapter 5. The Orientation of the Creative 71 The Structure of the Creative Process 71 The Orientation 72 The Spirit of Creating 73 Obligation 76 Creation Expressing Itself 79 The Secret of the Creative Process 81 YOU MAKE IT UP! 81 Making Things Up! 82 Focus on the Result 83 The Premature Process 85 Organically Formed Processes 87 What Is the Formula? 88 Process, Process Everywhere, but Not a Vision in Sight 90 Chapter 6. Tension Seeks Resolution 91 Tension-Resolution Systems 91 Conflict of Tendencies 93 Structural Conflict 93 Appearance 96 A Classic Conflict Structure 97 'Solving' Structural Conflict 101 Structural Conflict Is Not Resolvable 102 Chapter 7. Compensating Strategies 104 Area of Tolerable Conflict 106 Conflict Manipulation 108 Negative Visions: Fear, Guilt, and Pity 115 Breaking Habits Through Conflict Manipulation 116 Conflict Manipulation and Powerlessness 119 Willpower Manipulation 119 The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking 120 Affirmations 120 The Disempowerment of Positive Thinking 124 Some Words of Advice 127 Chapter 8. Structural Tension 129 A Change of Structure 129 Structural Tension 130 The Armature and the Engine 131 Being 'Realistic' 132 'I Don't See What I See' 133 Chapter 9. Vision 137 Start with Nothing 137 Form It in Pictures 138 How Clear Must the Concept Be? 139 From Concept to Vision 142 A Transition Period 144 The Vision Becomes an Entity 145 Your Life as a Creation 146 The Vision Is About What You Want 146 Knowing What You Want 148 The Vision Is an Organizing Principle 152 Chapter 10.
Current Reality 154 Reality Is Not the Enemy 154 Give Me a Good Reason 157 Two Tendencies 160 Your Concept of Reality May Not Be Reality 161 Reality Is Not a Concept 162 Similarities and Differences 163 Part Two: The Creative 168 Chapter 11. The Creative Cycle 170 Three Stages of Creation 170 Germination 170 Assimilation 172 Completion 175 Moving Forward 177 Chapter 12. Germination and Choice 178 Making Choices 178 Learning to Choose 178 Making the Right Choices 179 Choice and Creating What You Want 180 Avoiding Effective Choice 181 Choice and Power 186 Choice in the Creative Orientation 187 Choosing Negative Results 188 What You Don't Want 189 Formally Choosing 190 Chapter 13. Matteo Tarantino Disco Grafia Beatles there.
The main premise of the book is to use a natural instinct of going to the path of least resistance to propel yourself forward and naturally form. Robert Fritz takes a novel approach to corporate organizational theory by framing his book around the laws of nature. Fritz is especially attached to the law that states that energy follows the path of least resistance, and in this book, he urges managers to utilize this principle in reshaping their organizations. Once you get past.