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The rise : creativity, the gift of failure, and the search for mastery / Sarah Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creative ability.
- Failure (Psychology).
- Expertise.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
- Summary:
- Looks at creativity and mastery in the arts, science, and business, as well as the sometimes surprising ways that they are achieved through serendipity, failure, simple determination, and hard work.
- Contents:
- The Riddle
- Archer's Pardox 3
- The Unfinished Masterpiece 15
- The Near Win
- Blankness 37
- The Gift
- The Gap
- Private Domains: Studios and Inner Worlds
- Letting Them In: On Critique and Pressure
- The Crucible
- Arctic Summer: Surrender 61
- Beauty, Error, and Justice 89
- The Blind Spot 107
- The Iconoclast 119
- The Deliberate Amateu 141
- Friday Night Experiments
- At Play
- The Grit of the Arts 167
- Samuel F. B. Morse: Art and Science
- The Crit.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781451629231
- 1451629230
- OCLC:
- 852226586
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