Do not miss your life. The practice of awareness in creativity

About the book
This book is an invitation to a quiet conversation with the most important person in your life - with you! We were born to realize ourselves. The deadlins absorbed our daily life, and more and more they absorb our free time. In a fit, we do not feel how we neglect other things and other people. We love what we are doing, and we want to be loved for this. And admired. But there is a danger of overwork, burnout, doubt and fear of what happens when ideas do not beat a fountain ... This is not said about numerous trainings and closed doors of public speeches.

This book will help you both in study and in work, and will tell you how not to lose sight of your most important project - your life.

For whom
For creative professionals

From the author
It is always, when our own existence ceases to arrange us or it seems that nothing happens in our life, the question arises: "How to live?" The answer to him people have been looking for centuries. Hartmuth von Hentig called the thinking person the one who does what is needed.

How to live? But this book is addressed to those for whom creativity is the essence of life, and they are not the ones whom Hartmuth von Hentig wrote about: they are those who live, as they want. Therefore, this is the main question of our book: "How do we want to live?" Set it to yourself, and your view of life will change! He is more provocative, he is deeper and rather capable of inspiration than the question of the "meaning of life".

On the following pages, we will talk about experience useful in creativity, and at the same time about philosophers, non -traditional researchers, mystics and writers from different parts of the world - about people of unambiguous creative. Creativity is not economic, but spiritual. And the nature of the spirit (in Latin: Spiritus), deprived of "spirituality", is very unilateral. In the spirit, what is called "creativity" is born. Despite all the achievements of science, no one still managed to explain for sure where creativity came from. This means that there will be neither ready -made recipes, nor exemplary solutions in the book. And no one will tell you the true path either!

We will try to regain the relevance of "non -modern" topics. They will not only be useful in the way of creating a holistic concept of their life and work, but will also be forced to think. “Many are stubborn in relation to the once chosen path, few - regarding the goal,” said Friedrich Nietzsche in the book “Human, too human”. I want to open to you those new ways that are often old, but unfairly forgotten, you will come close to the goals of a creative life.

Dispensation is necessary for creativity, otherwise it would be possible to create only at your workplace. Creativity is incomparably more than the solution of work problems. Life and work lead a mutual game on the field between heaven and earth: there is enough space for creation. Perhaps Franz Kafka was right: "There is a goal, but there is no way. What we called the way is delay. "

About the author
Frank Bertzbach was born in 1971, teaches psychology, philosophy and pedagogy of culture in Cologne. He is engaged in the HEILIG/Profan review portal. Lesetagebuch ("Holy/Mirsky. Reading for every day") and, together with illustrators and photographers, blog Dosierte Kurzzeitliebe ("Dosed love of short -term") His bestseller "to withstand creativity - psychology for the designer" has been reprinted and translated into many languages ​​three times