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Publisher's summary
What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms rather than the other way around? In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find those creative impulses that, once liberated, offer new possibilities for achievement. A renowned therapist and inspiring guide, Dr. May draws on his experience to show how we can break out of old patterns in our lives. His insightful audiobook offers us a way through our fears into a fully realized self.
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- Lowball
- 01-16-19
May takes on the Creative Act
I had the pleasure of being a student to this gifted therapist and philosopher. May shows the connection between anxiety as the crucible for creativity. He has an encyclopedic memory and frequently brings brief passages from other authors to illuminate his point.
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- Juice
- 01-30-19
creative rebranding of how to create
I enjoyed this book and at first was lost in the concepts; however, I quickly gained the perspective from which creativity is formed. I loved the delivery and explanation of form and its correlation to ones need to have it. Whether to give meaning to the old or new realities, form has taken on new meaning for me.
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- E. Snowden
- 05-01-20
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So good So good So good So good So good So good So good So good recommend to everyone a thousand times
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- Josh Smith
- 08-19-20
New meaning to you
Understanding the source and structure of creativity helps expose nodes from which healthy well-being may be fostered. Peaceful read and deep resource to reference. Much mine and unpack-age here.
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- Quentin Wright
- 01-12-20
Posts dream
I think this book helps the poets in a major way it's a creative's guide to truth.
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- JBB
- 04-29-23
A magical synthesis
For context, this is my first encounter with May’s work. I am a musician, an engineer, an investor, and a dreamer.
Language is imperfect, so we lose fidelity when going from idea to language, then back to idea. May pays homage to that which rests between the lines, bustling and brooding, until finally our pre-conscious mind breaks through and reveals the form which seems to mold new shape into our reality.
He explores the value of the superlative and the illusions that lie within the precise.
Strongly recommend this book to anyone who finds it hard to quiet the mind and anyone who seeks solace in the natural tensions between art and science.
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- Hillary J
- 04-09-23
Rollo May was brilliant
This was a well made audio book of critically important material for artists especially timely still in 2023 which is saying something. Essential listening and reading for creative humans.
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- Kyle Marvin
- 02-12-23
Sacreligious and irreverent
Not worth my time. It dishonors God, may He have mercy on the authors soul.
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- Ana
- 12-26-22
insightful
beautiful listen, this was very revealing for someone with an artistic nature, it was a breeze to finish/listen to.
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- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story5 out of 5 stars 15
Rollo May challenges the idea that "mental health is living without anxiety," believing it is essential to being human. He explores how it can relieve boredom, sharpen sensibilities, and produce the tension necessary to preserve human existence. May sees a link extending from anxiety to intelligence, creativity, and originality, and guides the listener away from destructive ways to positive ways of dealing with anxiety. He convincingly proposes that anxiety can impel personal change, as it is only by confronting and coping with it that self-realization can occur.
By: Rollo May
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Man’s Search for Himself
- By: Rollo May
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 137
Loneliness, boredom, emptiness: These are the complaints that Rollo May encountered over and over from his patients. In response, he probes the hidden layers of personality to reveal the core of man's integration - a basic and inborn sense of value. Man's Search for Himself is an illuminating view of our predicament in an age of overwhelming anxieties and gives guidance on how to choose, judge, and act during such times.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good and introspective
- By Eric Friedman on 11-07-19
By: Rollo May
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The Creative Path
- A View from the Studio on the Making of Art
- By: Carolyn Schlam
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11
An inquiry into the creative process from philosophical, psychological, spiritual, and practical points of view, The Creative Path is a welcoming work on the creative process. Carolyn Schlam encourages the listener to embark upon his or her own journey of discovery, identity, and wonder through art. This inspirational book examines why we make art, and though it makes primary reference to visual art, The Creative Path will resonate with all creative practitioners, whatever their chosen discipline.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rich with insights
- By Nigel on 02-23-19
By: Carolyn Schlam
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Blessed Are the Weird
- A Manifesto for Creatives
- By: Jacob Nordby
- Narrated by: Jacob Nordby
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 92
This audiobook is for highly sensitive people who have felt out of place in the modern world. It provides a narrative that describes how they fit into a lineage of creatives throughout history. Jacob Nordby offers a bold new definition of success in the modern era. "The only success now is living and creating a work-of-art life: unique, rich with meaning, naked of anything we don't care about, and ruthless about carving out something absolutely real from a world that has gorged itself on fakeness and become critically ill from it."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should be given as a certification
- By Mia on 02-03-18
By: Jacob Nordby
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The Power of Daily Practice
- How Creative and Performing Artists (and Everyone Else) Can Finally Meet Their Goals
- By: Eric Maisel PhD
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
Anyone who has ever picked up a creativity or self-help guide has likely been advised to keep to a daily schedule, daily pages, or other everyday ritual. But "just do it" usually just doesn't work. Longtime creativity coach and therapist Eric Maisel has found an approach that does work: giving clients, and now listeners, a clear understanding of what makes them personally blocked or stuck and unable to start or finish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great resource for creative professionals
- By Starthrower on 09-17-20
By: Eric Maisel PhD
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Primitive Mythology
- The Masks of God Series, Volume I
- By: Joseph Campbell, David Kudler - editor
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 19 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 107
The author of such acclaimed books as The Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Epic speculation into the origins of our mythic consciousness
- By BGZ on 01-10-19
By: Joseph Campbell, and others
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Walking in This World
- The Practical Art of Creativity
- By: Julia Cameron
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 196
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 139
Walking in This World picks up where Julia Cameron's best-selling book on the creative process, The Artist's Way, left off to present readers with a second course, part two in an amazing journey toward discovering our human potential. Full of valuable new strategies and techniques for breaking through difficult creative ground, this is the "intermediate level" of the Artist's Way program.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I wish there was a zero star rating
- By Jason on 04-24-07
By: Julia Cameron
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Write It Down, Make It Happen
- Knowing What You Want and Getting It!
- By: Henriette Anne Klauser
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 171
In Write It Down, Make It Happen, Henriette Anne Klauser, PhD, explains how simply writing down your goals in life is the first step toward achieving them. Writing can even help you understand what you want. In this book, you will hear stories about ordinary people who witnessed miracles large and small unfold in their lives after they performed the basic act of putting their dreams on paper. Klauser's down-to-earth tips and easy exercises are sure to get your creative juices flowing. Before you know it, you'll be writing your own ticket to success.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Content
- By A. Baker on 03-16-18
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Out of Our Minds
- Learning to Be Creative
- By: Ken Robinson
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 347
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 298
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Story4 out of 5 stars 295
There is a paradox. As children, most of us think we are highly creative; as adults many of us think we are not. What changes as children grow up? Organizations across the globe are competing in a world that is changing faster than ever. They say they need people who can think creatively, who are flexible and quick to adapt.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Needs a different narrator
- By Kathryn on 02-03-14
By: Ken Robinson
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To Have or to Be?
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Adriel Brandt
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
To Have or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Fromm's thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and aggression, and is the basis of the universal evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, which is based on love, the pleasure of sharing, and in productive activity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I recommend listening carefully
- By JL Bate on 07-02-22
By: Erich Fromm
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A Way of Being
- By: Carl R. Rogers, Irvin D. Yalom MD - introduction
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 91
The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement and father of client-centered therapy, based his life's work on his fundamental belief in the human potential for growth. A Way of Being was written in the early 1980s, near the end of Carl Rogers's career, and serves as a coda to his classic On Becoming a Person. More philosophical than his earlier writings, it traces his professional and personal development and ends with a prophetic call for a more humane future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read before On Being
- By Anonymous on 01-28-19
By: Carl R. Rogers, and others
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How to See
- Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art
- By: David Salle
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 45
How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Engaging with a wide range of Salle's friends and contemporaries - from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz, among others - How to See explores not only the multilayered personalities of the artists themselves but also the distinctive character of their oeuvres.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for the novice
- By Denise on 04-14-20
By: David Salle
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The Art of Being
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 845
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 675
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 661
This classic work by psychologist and social philosopher Eric Fromm builds upon his previous popular book To Have or to Be? The Art of Being teaches us to avoid the tantalizing illusions of our consumer-driven world by learning to function as a whole person from a state of inner completeness or being. The transition from an identity of having to being creates a state of enlightened psychological and spiritual happiness.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very much an excerpt
- By Walter on 08-15-12
By: Erich Fromm
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The Miracle Habits
- The Secret of Turning Your Moments into Miracles
- By: Mitch Horowitz
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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