The Book of Doing and Being

Rediscovering Creativity in Life, Love, and Work

Barnet Bain

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781476785462
• eBook ISBN:
  9781476785479
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Personal Success

With clarity, humor, and insight, award-winning filmmaker Barnet Bain guides readers to unlock the raw power of the creative self. Sharing creativity principles and practices at the leading edge, The Book of Doing and Being offers a life-altering map for stepping beyond what we already know and into a dimension of imagination from which innovation is born.

Known for his inspiring movies and documentaries, as well as his popular creativity workshops, Barnet Bain makes available his teachings for the first time in book form. Discover how will and action come together with imagination and feeling to form the very foundation of creativity by working with this treasury of more than forty transformative exercises. Each one is designed to spark new creative connections by challenging our usual ways of thinking, feeling, and perceiving.

These lessons, tools, and techniques serve to unlock great reservoirs of creativity in every individual, whether it’s jumpstarting or completing a project, launching a new business, creating a work of art, experiencing more fulfilling relationships, or making other dreams come true. Bain’s motivational guidance includes: rewiring your brain to unleash ultra-creativity; finding freedom from self-criticism, perfectionism, and other obstructions to productivity and creative expression; harnessing the two forces of creativity: inspiration and action; discovering your emotions as the doorway to creative aliveness and ingenuity; and heeding the call of your Real Work, regardless of age, education, or experience.

Step by step, you will make the discovery of a lifetime: how to stop being ruled by your past and start consciously creating your present and future. You will be surprised and energized—by your next creative impulse, the next idea that excites you, the next experience that moves you—and you will live a creative life.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Freedom from Conditioning
• Chapter 2: Into the Wilds of Creative Imagining
• Chapter 3: Foundational Creativity: Energies of Creation, Part I
• Chapter 4: Creativity and the Body
• Chapter 5: Creativity in Balance: Assessing Your Life Wheel
• Chapter 6: The Most Amazing Thing
• Chapter 7: The Four Anesthetics
• Chapter 8: The Faces of Obstruction
• Chapter 9: Emotional Mastery
• Chapter 10: Engaging the Muses: Stepping into Creative Flow
• Chapter 11: Image Making
• Chapter 12: Jump-Starting Vision
• Chapter 13: Accelerated Creativity: Energies of Creation, Part II
• Chapter 14: The Guardians of Ultracreativity: Paradox and Confusion
• Chapter 15: The Uncommon Senses: Rediscovering Intuition
• Chapter 16: The Five Creative Talents
• Chapter 17: Your Real Work: Where Personal Innovation Meets Purpose
• Chapter 18: Your Life as Art
• Acknowledgments
• About Barnet Bain
• Index
• Copyright