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This is a book about creativity--about how habits of self-discovery, spirited inquiry, and individual expression lead to the bliss of insight and the boldness of new ideas. It's about the heroism of original thinking and the integrity, endurance, and courage such thinking demands.
This is also a book about innovation--about how great ideas make their sometimes painful way from the private mind into the public consciousness, changing it forever. It's about how all the things that can hamper our personal creativity--self-satisfaction, vacuous education, moral weakness--can also hamper our creativity as a society, and how society's institutions, no matter how "liberal," can discourage true innovation.
Remarkable in its understanding of the creative process, bracing in its attack on those forces that would undermine that process, "The Grace of Great Things" is unique among the many recent books on creativity in being both a witty, practical handbook to freer thinking and a philosophical meditation on the place of the creative individual in a modern democracy. "Creative achievement," writes Robert Grudin, "is the boldest initiative of mind. It is not the comfort of the safe harbor, it is the thrill of the reaching sail." "The Grace of Great Things" is not for the timid. It's for adventurous readers who would dare to become more creative, to use their minds to become more truly free.
ROBERT GRUDIN is a professor of English at the University of Oregon. "The Grace of Great Things" is part of an ongoing inquiry into creativity and human liberty begun in "Time and the Art of Living" and continued in "On Dialogue: An Essay in Free Thought." All three books are now available in uniform paperback editions from Mariner Books.
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