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

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

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Humans are driven to make things to defy entropy and create order and meaning. We use poetry, painting, writing, dancing, photography, filmmaking, storytelling, singing, animating, designing, performing, carving, sculpting, and other ways to create order out of chaos and share it with others. We need a creative philosophy to help us find our voice, discover our message, deal with responses to our work, maintain inspiration, and stay mentally healthy and motivated creators.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 31 August 2021
Publisher: Rocky Nook


Why are human beings driven to make?

It's 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. We're 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, it's 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 that 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 find "the meaning in the making."

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Order

Chapter 2: Logos

Chapter 3: Breath

Chapter 4: Voice

Chapter 5: Ego

Chapter 6: Control

Chapter 7: Attention

Chapter 8: Envy

Chapter 9: Critique

Chapter 10: Feel

Chapter 11: Shadows

Chapter 12: Meaning

Chapter 13: Time

Chapter 14: Benediction

Weight: 278g
Dimension: 113 x 180 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781681987231

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