He discusses such ideas as why creative individuals are often seen as selfish and arrogant, and why the "tortured genius" is largely a myth. Drawing on nearly one hundred interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists, to politicians and business leaders, to poets and artists, as well as his thirty years of research on the subject, Csikszentmihalyi uses his famous flow theory to explore the creative process. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ("The leading researcher into 'flow states.'" - Newsweek) reveals what leads to these moments-be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab-so that this knowledge can be used to enrich people's lives. Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. "Although the benefits of this study to scholars are obvious, this thought-provoking mixture of scholarly and colloquial will enlighten inquisitive general readers, too." - Library Journal (starred review) The classic study of the creative process from the bestselling author of Flow.
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But if Through Black Spruce, in all its iterations, wants its audiences to think about Canada’s ugly history, then it should be prepared to interrogate its own genesis as well.Īnnie's story focuses on the young Cree woman's mission to find her sister after she goes missing in Toronto. An Indigenous story packaged for easy consumption by not one but now two non-Indigenous storytellers? It is a bad joke that has been told too many times. This hypothetical may seem like an obvious, easy attempt at dismissing Through Black Spruce. Canadian director Don McKellar ( Last Night, The Grand Seduction) lends highly experienced hands to the effort, but watching Will and Annie’s stories unfold in awkward chunks, and with their identities eternally out of the filmmaker’s psychological grasp whether he likes to acknowledge that truth or not, you cannot help but wonder how the project might have been otherwise steered. To tell the novel’s two intertwined stories – one focusing on Will (Brandon Oakes), an alcoholic Moosonee bush pilot who’s run afoul of drug-runners, the other on Will’s niece Annie (Tanaya Beatty), who’s searching for her missing sister in Toronto – requires an assured directorial sensibility and a sincere understanding of Indigenous history and trauma. Joseph Boyden’s Through Black Spruce was never going to be an easy novel to adapt – even before debates surrounding Boyden’s Indigenous identity cropped up in 2016. The new edition features updated charts & data up until the year 2016, and a new introductory chapter. On Octoa 2nd updated & revised 10th Anniversary Edition was published. Trying to beat the market "is a loser's game," according to Bogle and "the more the managers and brokers take, the less investors make." 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