Uncertainty

by Fields, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9781591844242
• ISBN10: 159184424X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-29
• Publisher: Portfolio

Summary

From the acclaimed blogger and author of Career Renegade. All creators, from writers to painters to entrepreneurs and team leaders, eventually come face-to-face with mounting waves of fear and uncertainty. It's unavoidable. How you handle these powerful influences, though, often determines the difference between glorious success and demoralizing defeat. Properly understood and harnessed, fear and uncertainty can become fuel for creative genius rather than sources of pain, anxiety, and suffering. But when misunderstood, mishandled, and avoided, they quickly become forces of creative and emotional paralysis and destruction, turning the seeds of great art, business, and innovation into creative misses and outright failures. Drawing on extensive case studies and research, Fields shares a set of detailed personal practices and environmental changes that can not only humanize the creative process, but also allow individuals and teams to stay more open to opportunity and play a bigger creative game.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Why Uncertainty Matters	p. 15
What Uncertainty Does To Us	p. 29
The Myth Of The Fearless Creator	p. 39
Find Your Certainty Anchors	p. 45
Build Your Hive	p. 61
Socializing Creation	p. 83
Train Your Brain	p. 111
See The Forest	p. 151
Own The Story Line	p. 175
Bring It Home	p. 191
Chapter Summaries	p. 197
Additional Resources	p. 207
Conversation Starters	p. 209
Acknowledgments	p. 215
Index	p. 217
About The Author	p. 227
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