The Monk and the Warrior in the Garden of Renewal Searching for Meaning, Mind, Work

by Brower, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780761818953
• ISBN10: 0761818952
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-19
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

This book is a structural analysis of creativity. It proposes that there are five essential, recursive, confluent macrosystems that require interconnectedness and intentional evolution for the fruition of creativity, of mastery, of self-efficacy, and of spiritual self-growth. The five systems are: (1) knowledge, (2) mental operations, (3) rich emotional worlds, (4) a sense of purpose, and (5) connecting with others. This text includes an overview of previous research on creativity, while proposing a new theory based on confluence theory, the belief that creativity is best understood as an intersection and recursive interaction among confluencing systems.

Table of Contents

PART I Perspective	1	(46)
A thunderstorm of the soul	1	(6)
Confluence theory	7	(10)
Shoulders	17	(30)
PART II Five systems of creativity	47	(428)
Knowledge	47	(62)
Knowledge and creativity	48	(6)
Structures of the mind	54	(8)
Domain specificity	62	(5)
Learning	67	(18)
Continuity and change	85	(3)
Framing and transfer of knowledge	88	(18)
Trees are trees	106	(3)
Operations	109	(152)
Creative thinking	110	(8)
Principles of mental operations	118	(1)
Cross fertilization	119	(9)
The monk and the warrior	128	(6)
Problem framing	134	(3)
Journaling	137	(2)
Imagination and negation	139	(7)
Bracketing and incubation	146	(3)
Expert operations	149	(8)
Mental gymnastics	157	(1)
Transformation of an idea	158	(12)
Everything is created twice	170	(9)
Insight	179	(16)
Creating in the lab	195	(10)
Propositions	205	(10)
Meditation	215	(18)
Self-determination	233	(18)
Decalage	251	(8)
Flow	259	(2)
Affect	261	(88)
Emotions and creativity	263	(4)
Peak experiences	267	(2)
Love	269	(6)
Courage	275	(6)
The black dog	281	(18)
Self-efficacy	299	(4)
Emotional connections	303	(2)
Motivation	305	(4)
Dreams, myths, archetypes	309	(19)
Sublimation and reparation	328	(9)
The creative attitude	337	(12)
Time	349	(84)
Creativity and time	351	(3)
Purpose and hill climbing	354	(5)
The ANL triad	359	(33)
Constructive repetition	392	(30)
The ten year rule	422	(4)
Normative studies	426	(7)
The social	433	(42)
The creator and the zeitgeist	444	(5)
Teachers	449	(3)
Parallel collaboration	452	(8)
Creativity and the social vacuum	460	(5)
Social comparison	465	(1)
Universals	466	(1)
Nonconformity and creativity	467	(1)
Brainstorming	468	(1)
Rouault and Vollard	469	(6)
Part III Discussion	475
Logonetics	477
Five keys and the cultivation of creativity	482
Affirmations	488
Heuristics	489
A ten-step program	506
Virtue over pleasure	509
Creativity as a balancing act	514