The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life - Softcover

Fritz, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449903370 ISBN 13: 9780449903377

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1989

Synopsis

Learn how to hone your creativity and build the life you crave with this revolutionary program for creating anything—from a gourmet dinner to a new job and beyond.

We may not know it, but most of us long to create something in our lives. It may not be a painting, a novel, or a musical composition, the products we usually associate with “creativity.” It may be a beautiful, functional kitchen, a computer program, or good health. Yet achieving these ends requires the same skills that the painter, novelist, or musician would use in completing their masterpiece.

The Path of Least Resistance is Robert Fritz’s revolutionary program for creating anything, based not on pop psychology, but on the tradition of the arts and sciences. You will learn:

• The steps of creating—from conceiving the result to taking action to building momentum
• The importance of creating what you truly love
• The creative cycle—germination, assimilation, and completion—and how to make the most of each stage as you travel through it
• Why manipulating willpower, affirmations, positive thinking, and other human potential programs don’t work
• The difference between making fundamental, primary, and secondary choices in your life, and how making each kind of choice will affect your ability to create what you want
• The importance of having a firm grasp on both current reality and future vision—and how to focus the creative process to move from where you are to where you want to be

Fritz’s most astounding finding is that once an individual makes a conscious choice to be the predominant creative force in their own life, that life is changed forever: possibilities open up, projects are born from other projects, and the practice of being true to yourself, your project, your vision of life, becomes more and more effortless. Most important, he dispels the idea that you have to be born “creative”; creativity is a skill that can be learned, practiced, and mastered.

The Path of Least Resistance is an oasis for anyone tired of the inadequacies of self-help yet sincerely longing to create a life of satisfaction and purpose.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Fritz is the developer of the Technologies for Creating curriculum and author of Creating, Your Life as Art, Corporate Tides, The Path of Least Resistance, and The Path of Least Resistance for Managers. He is also the founder of the Fritz Consulting Group and co-founder of Choicepoint, Inc.

From the Back Cover

A revolutionary program for creating anything, from a functional kitchen to a computer program, to a work of art, Robert Fritz demonstrates that any of us has the innate power to create. Discover the steps of creating; the importance of creating what you truly love, how to focus on the creative process to move from where you are to where you want to be, and much more.

Reviews

Using as analogy the scientific principle that energy follows the path of least resistance, the founder of the DMA seminars attempts an easily assimilated self-help book--a substantial revision of his 1984 best seller. He argues that just as wind moves around natural obstructions, seeking the path of least resistance, so do we attempt to move around the structures of our lives--getting by with as few hassles as possible. Fritz's advice is to modify the structures, enabling the creative energy within to flourish instead of dissipate. Initially, his focus is clear; but numerous citings of well-known psychologists and famous movers and shakers (Einstein, Henry Moore, etc.) grow tiresome as Fritz drones on, losing us in excess verbiage. Some valuable sections, but most will find this tedious. Not recommended.
- Kevin M. Roddy, Oakland P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0449903370
• ISBN 13: 9780449903377
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320