The Meaning In The Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create

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Become inspired, find your voice, and create work that matters.Why are human beings driven to make?Its as if we collectively intuited, long before science gave us the language, that the universe bends toward entropy, and every act of creation on our part is an act of defiance in the face of that evolving disorder.When we pick up a paintbrush, or compose elements through our camera viewfinders, or press fingers into wet clay to wrestle form from a shapeless lump, we are bending things back toward Order and wrestling them from Chaos.But making things is often not enough.We also want the things we make to be filled with meaning. Were each trying to describe what we know about life, to create a collective sense of safety in numbers. When we reach the end of our traditional descriptive powers, its time to weave collective meaning from poetry, painting, writing, dancing, photographing, filmmaking, storytelling, singing, animating, designing, performing, carving, sculpting, and a million other ways we daily create Order out of the Chaos and share it with each other for comfort.On this journey we need a creative philosophy which will help us find our voice, discover our message, deal with the responses to our work, maintain inspiration, and stay mentally healthy and motivated creators as we strive to findThe meaning in the making.Table of ContentsChapter 1: OrderChapter 2: LogosChapter 3: BreathChapter 4: VoiceChapter 5: EgoChapter 6: ControlChapter 7: AttentionChapter 8: EnvyChapter 9: CritiqueChapter 10: FeelChapter 11: ShadowsChapter 12: MeaningChapter 13: TimeChapter 14: Benediction