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	Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art Stephen Nachmanovitch Tarcher, 1991 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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It clearly explains what Creativity is and how to unlock the inner obstructions we have to be more creative in any field we would like to perform.

Do you have a passion? forget about everything, if you can unlock your creativity you will reach a state which is unknown to many.

I highly recommend this book to everyone, no matter what they do.


Divine Play

I have been buying books at Amazon for years, and this is the first review I ever felt compelled to write. Simply put, this is the book I buy and give to family and friends. The knowledge contained in this book is potent and reflect the juicy nuggets of a lucious truth that can be known and experienced in this life. Why just connect with the font of life when you can merge fully into it. I highly recommend this book.

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Deep and inspirational but also dense and overlapping

Stephen Nachmanovitch has written more than just a book on improvisation and innovation. Contained within are anecdotes and lessons to be re-read. By combining an avid interest in Eastern religion and philosophy with the perspective and expertise of a seasoned musician, he has managed to deliver a book that challenges readers to live actively in order to live freely. For those looking for a more practical, hands-on approach to creativity that focuses on techniques with a modern business-oriented feel, this book would be a mistake. That said, let's continue on to what can be found within.
Mr. Nachmanovitch clearly knows his stuff (look into his educational background and you'll see why) and one would do well to be acquainted with some basics in American and English literature as well as Eastern philosophy to understand some of the allusions he makes throughout the book. I think this is where the feel of the book stems from. Additionally, all these philosophers and poets focused on an inward development and enlightment which Mr. Nachmonovich beleives to be critical for unblocking the creative process since, as the book introduces early on, all people are inherently creative. Living is a creative experience.
Personally I will keep this book to re-read every few years to discover new things about myself and life, and so I recommend this to anyone to at least give it a try. This is not to say that there isn't room for improvement. I disagree with how the author organizes the concepts in the book because often they overlap and meld into each other. While this may serve the overall feel of the book by creating a sense of continuity and unity, it also creates confusion. One could pick up the book and flip to a chapter in the beginning then stop and pick up near the end of the book as if it were the same chapter. Many of the ideas I encounter are self-contained and good pieces of wisdom by themselves but are not connected enough to give me an overall sense of direction for the book. It seems more like a collection of good ideas that, if read thoroughly and repeatedly enough, will eventually sink into the mind of the reader. He might also want to balance out the internal focus of the book with occasional techniques or examples of real-life active uses of ideas in the book. The problem here is bridging what is written and makes sense in the mind and implementing some of what is absorbed into the daily routine, otherwise the lessons become lost. Even so, the experience of reading this book has been truly inspirational and a joy.

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Out of Play comes wisdom

I typically look at non-fiction books through the lens of business management and decision-making -- frames of reference that revere focus and efficiency. So, where does a book on "Play" fit into this? Very precisely and efficiently, actually.
The book says that great moments in science occur when the seemingly complex is suddenly resolved by seeing the underlying design or motif that explains things deeply.
Getting to this point requires indulging the creative process, regardles of whether the context is fine art, music, science or even business.
Easier said than done! And that's what this book is all about -- explaining the complex notion of creativity.
Playing is how we learn and discover the intracacies of an infinitely complex universe. Yet, when we rush to a conclusion or, worse, criticize ourselves (or others, for that matter) for not having already perfected a task, everything shuts down. Learning and creativity halt.
This is not to say that playing is a free-for-all. Rather, the book emphasizes that you must have a command of technique ... which, it goes on to say springs forth from play.
In all, the book does a beautiful job of explaining that "free play must be tempered with judgment, and judgment tempered with freedom to play."

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