Index

A

about this book, vi–vii

accidents, 134, 240

Adams, Ansel, 72, 91, 120, 193

adaptation, 82–83

adversity, 135

advice, 214, 215

age

creativity and, 22, 208

time perception and, 145

Alchemist, The (Coelho), 87, 88, 93

amygdala, 76, 81, 82

Arbus, Diane, 124

Aristotle, 176, 179

Armani, Giorgio, 112

Armstrong, Lance, 59, 61

art, 29, 176, 220, 266, 276

authenticity, 24, 66, 120

author’s contact info, 277

autonomy, 78

B

Barrie, James M., 215

Beatles, The, 106

“Before I die....” question, 229

Berkus, David, 166–167

Bernstein, Leonard, 229

Berry, Wendell, 6, 172

Bisharat, Andrew, 130

Blake, William, 202

boomerang effect, 76

Bourgeois, Louise, 22

brain, lizard, 76

breaks, taking, 164, 166–167, 183

Brown, Brené, 48

Brown, Stuart, 206, 208

Brownie camera, 205–206

Buber, Martin, 1

Buddhism, 183, 194

C

Caen, Herb, 115

Cain, Susan, 93

Caldwell, Tommy, 130, 134

Callahan, Steve, 152, 154

cameras

author’s discovery of, 146, 149

invention of GoPro, 200, 202

success of simple, 205–206

See also photography

Camus, Albert, 276

carpe diem, 230, 231

Carrey, Jim, 91

Carter, Keith, 188

Cat in the Hat, The (Dr. Seuss), 263

Celtic mythology, 156

Cerf, Bennett, 264

Cervantes, Miguel de, 6, 7

Chang, Candy, 226, 229

children, 19–20, 208

Chong, Evan, 73

Chouinard, Yvon, 14, 214

Cleese, John, 183

Close, Chuck, 83, 151

Coelho, Paulo, 48, 87, 88, 93

Cohen, Leonard, 223

collaboration, 237

Collins, Jim, 127

combinatory play, 39, 42

connecting the dots, 40, 42

constraints, 263–264, 266

Cotte, Pascal, 220

Cox, Coleman, 151

craft, 191, 193

creative adaptation, 83

creative flow, 78, 149, 261

creative growth, 45, 72, 186, 189, 206

creativity

practicing, 25, 179, 206, 261

steps in process of, 27–30

Creativity (Csikszentmihalyi), 40

critique, 45–51

boomerang effect and, 76

confronting fear and, 76, 78

ways of dealing with, 48–51

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 40, 93, 149

cummings, e e, 173

curiosity, 193

Currey, Donald Rusk, 65

D

da Vinci, Leonardo, 220

Dahl, Roald, 22, 25, 186

day jobs, 10

de Botton, Alain, 183

Dead Poets Society (Schulman), 112, 230

death

awareness of, 226, 229–230, 245

close encounters with, 240, 243

facing the fact of, 225, 247, 252

life illuminated by, 248

Decker, Ben, 49

Deep Survival (Gonzales), 81

Degas, Edgar, 261

devil’s advocate, 45–46

Dickens, Charles, 180, 250

Dickinson, Emily, 243

difficulty, 130, 215, 266, 272, 276

digital photography, 119–120, 267

See also photography

digital sabbath, 183

discontent, 214, 215

distractions, 179, 180, 183

Don Quixote (Cervantes), 6

Douglass, Frederick, 135, 141

Dr. Seuss, 141, 142, 263–264

duChemin, David, 120

E

Eastman, George, 205

Edison, Thomas, 42, 72, 214

education, 20, 22, 211, 213

effort, creative, 4, 7, 22, 151–152

Einstein, Albert, 29, 39, 55, 56, 162, 164, 206, 220

Eliot, T. S., 170, 179, 267

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 63, 88, 170, 208, 247

energy map, 157

enthusiasm, 88, 90

Escher, M. C., 138

Essentialism (McKowen), 93

excuses, 101

F

factory visits, 33–34

fear, 22, 70, 76, 226, 237

Finding Your Element (Robinson), 93

flaws, 76, 78, 223

flow, 78, 149, 261

Flow (Csikszentmihalyi), 93

football, 129

Ford, Harrison, 90

Forster, E. M., 62

Frank, Anne, 22

Frankl, Viktor, 93, 214

Franklin, Ben, 22, 55, 252

G

Gehry, Frank, 48

Geisel, Ted, 141, 142

Glass, Ira, 257

goals, higher, 72, 73, 127

Godin, Seth, 76, 176

Golden Gate Bridge, 115

Gonzales, Laurence, 81

good vs. great, 123–127

GoPro camera, 200, 202

grace, 62

Graham, Martha, 24

gratitude, 270, 272, 275

greatness, 123, 124, 127, 133

Greek mythology, 156, 157

Green Eggs and Ham (Dr. Seuss), 264

grit, 130, 134, 135

guidelines, 267

Gupta, Robert, 272, 275

Gutenberg, Johannes, 35

H

habitats, 185–189

habits, 179

hardship, 130

Harris, Edmund, 98

helplessness, learned, 22

Hemingway, Ernest, 78, 186

Henri, Robert, 154

Henson, Jim, 34

holistic view, 108

hope, 4, 134, 141, 233

Hugo, Victor, 186, 272

humanity, 197

I

ideals, 152

identity, 78

ignited ideas, 236–237

imagination, 27, 29, 30, 193–194

imitation, 213

information, 27, 29, 30, 40

innovation, 29, 30, 42, 260

inspiration, 57, 90, 97, 151, 152, 156

inventions, 22, 35, 40, 42, 200, 202

iteration, 261

J

Jacks, L. P., 188

Jackson, Mahalia, 233–234, 236

Jefferson, Thomas, 92

Jobs, Steve, 40, 42, 55, 56, 226

Johnson, Jack, 121

Johnson, Steven, 42

Jorgeson, Kevin, 130

K

Keats, John, 194, 252

Keller, Helen, 6

Kermit the Frog, 34

Kerouac, Jack, vi

kindness, 149

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 22, 225, 234, 236, 237

Kleon, Austin, 214

Konnikova, Maria, 208

L

Labor, Earl, 48

ladders, 10, 13–14, 127, 156

Lamott, Anne, 49

Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 173

learned helplessness, 22

Lee, Bruce, 260, 261

Lennon, John, 29, 108, 189

Les Misérables (Hugo), 188, 272

letting go, 156, 166

Lewis, C. S., 261

Liebeck, Jack, 164

Lief, Judy, 179

Lieto, Chris, 135

light bulbs, 42

limitations, 263, 264, 266, 267

Lincoln, Abraham, 50, 57

lizard brain, 76

London, Jack, 7, 48, 97–98, 194

Lucas, George, 90

luck, 87, 88, 90, 91–92

M

Ma, Yo-Yo, 24, 69–70, 72, 73

magnetic north, 61

Mahabharata, 245

Mallory, George, 129

Mandela, Nelson, 135

Man’s Search for Meaning (Frankl), 93

Marcus Aurelius, 53

Matisse, Henri, 206

McCullough, David, 16

McGregor, Ewan, 206

McKowen, Greg, 93

meditation, 183

Melville, Herman, 213, 250

Merton, Thomas, 13, 93

Merwin, W. S., 243

“Messenger” (Oliver), 112

Michelangelo, 276

might, acting with, 250

Miller, Henry, 197

Milton, John, 275

mind wandering, 166, 167

mindfulness, 119, 183

mistakes, 61–62, 70, 72, 73

Moby Dick (Melville), 213

momentum, 120, 149, 237

Mona Lisa (da Vinci), 220

monomania, 257

Mother Teresa, 135, 172, 217

mountain climbing, 129–130, 133

Muir, John, 9–10, 11, 172

multi-tasking, 180

Mumford, Marcus, 193

muses, 154, 156, 157

music, 164, 166, 220, 272

mystery, 193, 220

myths, 156, 157

N

names, 141, 143

National Geographic, 130

National Parks, 10

nature, 10, 156, 172

near-death experiences, 240

negative vows, 66, 67

Nin, Anais, 91

nom de guerre, 141, 143

Nye, Naomi Shihab, 226

O

oasis, 188

Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), 258

Olds, Sharon, 43, 208

Oliver, Mary, 112, 252

optimism, 161, 162

originality, 203, 213

Orwig, Jeff, 135

P

pain, 146, 240, 243, 252

panic, 81, 82

paradigms, 48, 51

parenting, 82, 83

Parkinson, Cyril, 229

passion, 55, 62, 63, 202, 203

path to success, 106, 109, 138, 142

patience, 149

Penn, William, 172

perfectionism, 70, 72, 161

personal legend, 87, 88, 90, 93

perspective change, 149

Peter Pan (Barrie), 215

photography

authenticity and, 120

author’s discovery of, 146, 149

dealing with critiques of, 49, 76

digital, 119–120, 267

good vs. great, 123–127

reason for doing, 115

silence related to, 170

slowing down in, 119–120, 121

vision and, 91

Picard, Max, 169

Picasso, Pablo, 24, 55, 56, 152, 172, 206

Plato, 16

play, 206, 208, 209

Plutarch, vi

Poe, Edgar Allan, 193

poetry, 112, 260

practice, 25, 179, 206, 261

Pressfield, Steve, 237

printing press, 35

Prinz, Joachim, 234

Q

Quiet (Cain), 93

R

Rath, Tom, 93

redwood trees, 185–186

regret vs. shame, 62

resistance, 237

resources, vii, 231, 277

Riboud, Marc, 146

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 230

risks, creative, 66, 67

Robinson, Ken, 20, 22, 90, 93

rock climbing, 129–130, 133

Roethke, Thomas, 167

role models, 109

Rollins, Henry, 95, 97, 162

Roosevelt, Theodore, vii, 10, 13, 98, 100, 101, 135

rules, 56, 264, 266

S

Schnabel, Artur, 176

school system, 20, 22

Schooler, Jonathan, 166, 167

Schulman, Tom, 112

Schwab, Charles, 49

self-forgetfulness, 149

Seligman, Martin, 22

Seven Story Mountain, The (Merton), 93

Sexton, John, 172

shame vs. regret, 62

Shaw, George Bernard, 72, 208

Shelton, Jeff, 111, 186, 215

shortcuts, 191, 193

silence, 169–170, 172, 173

Silverstein, Shel, 30

Sinek, Simon, 112

Slater, Kelly, 78

Sledge, Sharlande, 156

slowing down, 119–120, 121

Socrates, 159

solitude, 172–173

spray and pray, 119

status quo, 112, 176, 188

Steal Like an Artist (Kleon), 214

Steinbeck, John, 257–258, 260, 261

Stone, Linda, 175

Stravinsky, Igor, 266

Strength Finder (Rath), 93

strengths, identifying, 79

stuckness, 146, 149

success

definitions of, 14, 16, 141

misconceptions about, 141

path to, 106, 109, 138, 142

tenacity related to, 76, 97

suffering, 215

survival, 81, 82–83

switch-tasking, 180

T

talent, 97

technique, 260, 261

TED talks, 20, 48, 90, 112, 229

tenacity, 97, 101

thin places, 156, 157

Thomas, Dylan, 252

Thoreau, Henry David, 103

Thurman, Howard, 88

time, 145–146, 250

“To Build a Fire” (London), 194

Tolkien, J. R. R., 260

Tolstoy, Leo, 119

Tortilla Flat (Steinbeck), 257

tragedy, 59, 83, 272

Twain, Mark, 59, 61, 62, 119, 141

U

uniqueness, 24, 78

V

values, 62, 63

Van Gogh, Vincent, 276

Velázquez, Diego, 194, 197

Velveteen Rabbit, The (Williams), 220

vision, 91

vows, 66, 67

W

waking up, 240

War of Art, The (Pressfield), 237

Watts, Alan W., 202

web resources, vii, 231, 277

Wellman, Mark, 130, 133, 134

why vs. what, 111–115

wild edges, 220, 223

Williams, Margery, 220

Wiseman, Richard, 90, 91–92

Wolpe, David, 230

work-life balance, 108

workspaces, 186, 188

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 22, 138

Y

Yeats, W. B., 75

Yelverton, Theresa, 10

Yosemite National Park, 9–10, 130, 133