Get Inspired!

Releasing Your Creative Self at Any Age

By: Roy P. Fairfield

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Everyone has creative potentials waiting to be discovered. The challenge we all face is learning how to tap into those potentials to release our creative gifts. Innovative educator Roy P. Fairfield has mined his many years of experience and his own creativity in teaching people new ways to explore their inner resources by writing this fun, practical, and truly inspiring book. Fairfield's main thesis is that the process of creativity is more important than the product, and we can all learn to be creative every day. To that end he has created a series of entertaining and interesting exercises, including a "Write-in-the-Dark Kit," a retirement kit called "Count Down to Re-FIRE-ment," and "Crap-Detecting as a Way of Life." Encouraging readers to "go forth and do likewise," Fairfield demonstrates how such exercises can open entire new mental landscapes to be explored with both joy and satisfaction.

Drawing on the ideas of Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and other pioneers in the humanistic tradition, Fairfield discusses everything from creating a climate for creativity to the uses of illusion to spur on creative expression of all sorts. Truly a hands-on guide for living in the moment, Get Inspired! will change your life, and you'll be thankful for it.

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Non-Fiction Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Popular Psychology Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

Preface	p. 9
Climate for Creativity	p. 11
Unique Angles of Vision	p. 12
To Bend Over and Look	p. 13
Basic Assumptions	p. 14
On Conventional Wisdoms	p. 15
Let Us Praise Illusion	p. 17
To Blossom or Not to Blossom	p. 20
Projections and Prospects	p. 22
Postscript	p. 24
Some Basic Tools	p. 27
What Is a Fact?	p. 27
Basic Assumptions Therapy	p. 31
Facts versus Assumptions	p. 33
Do-It-Yourself Kits 1	p. 35
"Perchance to Dream"	p. 38
Crap Detecting as a Way of Life	p. 39
Some Things I Do to Get Things Done	p. 41
Motivation and Health	p. 44
Journaling	p. 45
Duo-logging	p. 47
Letter Writing as a Portal to Self-Development	p. 49
Listening with a Third Ear	p. 52
Question as Tool	p. 55
Random Processes	p. 59
Self-Fulfilling and Self-Deceiving Prophecies	p. 61
On Deception	p. 63
Learning Styles	p. 65
What Is Learning?	p. 65
Learning as a Subversive Activity	p. 71
Distance Learning and the Internet	p. 75
Linking with the Internet	p. 78
Objectivity versus Subjectivity?	p. 80
Theory and Practice	p. 83
To Saw a Board	p. 85
Handling Tools	p. 88
Learning in the Marketplace	p. 89
Aging with Dignity	p. 91
Your Own Passages	p. 95
Three Cheers for Enthusiasm	p. 95
Your Enthusiasm Quotient	p. 98
New Learning Styles for Traditional Institutions	p. 99
Paradox, Irony, and Freedom (to Laugh)	p. 108
Paucity and Audacity	p. 108
Fairfield's Laws	p. 111
Your Paradox Quotient (PQ)	p. 114
Fables	p. 115
Do-It-Yourself Kits 2	p. 117
How to Make a Cake	p. 118
More Tooling Up	p. 119
Potpourri of Decalogues	p. 120
Decalogue for Survival of Teachers in the Public School	p. 122
Decalogue for College Faculty	p. 122
Your Personal Commandments	p. 125
Jester Letters	p. 126
Hand-ling Foot-notes	p. 132
The Search for Quotients	p. 134
Serious Needs to Be Playful	p. 135
Spell Checks on the Computer	p. 136
Fun Queries ... Whimsicology	p. 136
Words with a Hue (or to Hew?)	p. 139
Highways to Laughter	p. 140
Acronyms	p. 141
FUN-ny Names	p. 141
License Plate "Numbers" Observed	p. 141
More Words with Hues or to Be Hewn	p. 142
Questions with a Hue!	p. 143
More Pun-Americanism	p. 143
Sounds and Furies	p. 144
Book and Film Titles	p. 144
Family Expressions	p. 145
"Well! Fan Me with a Brick!"	p. 145
Beneath the Bottom Line	p. 148
Creative Polyphrenia/Multiple Awareness	p. 149
An Anatomy of Dissent	p. 153
The Self-Deceiving Prophecy Revisited 2	p. 155
The Paradox of Freedom	p. 156
The Half-Life of a Question	p. 158
Your Queries	p. 161
Favorite Unasked Questions	p. 161
Lost Questions	p. 162
What Is Your Favorite Unasked Question?	p. 163
Zen and the Art of Hustling	p. 163
Zen and Other Arts	p. 166
Postage Due	p. 167
Mood Pieces	p. 171
Zen and Housekeeping	p. 173
The Artistic Impulse	p. 176
Darwin and Creativity Theory	p. 177
Art as a Survival Imperative	p. 179
Haiku and You	p. 182
Doing Haiku	p. 186
Grooks Anonymous: Dogged and Dog-Legged Doggerel	p. 187
Clerihews	p. 192
New Uses for the Muse	p. 194
Red Coals, Black Ivy	p. 198
The Poem-Letter	p. 202
Spontaneity and Being	p. 206
Sense Deprivation and Enhancement	p. 209
Odd Angles of Vision	p. 213
Why "Odd"?/When "Odd"?/How "Odd"?	p. 213
Uniqueness and the Individual	p. 217
Social Change and the Quiet Revolution	p. 223
The Editor as Leveler	p. 225
Career as Thing/Object!	p. 225
Who Are You?	p. 227
Social Courage and Action	p. 227
Short Story as Opportunity	p. 228
Now Try It!	p. 230
Of Storytelling	p. 230
Never to Forget!	p. 233
Illusion: Friend, Enemy, or Both?	p. 235
Emulating Leonardo	p. 239
Illusion, Rhetoric, and Disillusion?	p. 240
Epilogue: Count UP to Inspire	p. 243
A Do-It-Yourself Re-FIRE-ment Kit	p. 246
Working Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 255
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