My top five books read this year in no particular order. Please share your top books of the year.
Author: kaushik
Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell
A common peril is much the easiest way of producing homogeneity.
The world of perception by Maurice Merleau- pointy
To restore is never to reestablish; it is to mask
The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly–that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self.
The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri
He’d go from ten in the morning to one in the afternoon, then he’d come home for lunch, take a little nap, go back to work at three-thirty and stay there till six-thirty.
Here is new York by E.B.White
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, this heightening it meaning. The city is like poetry it compress all life, all races and breeds into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.
– E.B. White on NYC
On process
All of this weeks collection is taken from a variety of books which look at the ways in which we use process to inform creativity. – KP
Work as an individual
An individual who has to make things for the use of others, and with reference to their wants and their wishes, does not work with interest, and consequently cannot put into his work what is best in him.
Source : The Soul of Man under Socialism
A mind full of preconceived ideas
A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits is not open to things as they are. That is why we practice zazen: to clear our mind of what is related to something else.
Source : Zen Mind – Beginner’s Mind
The method
First, the gathering of raw materials-both the materials of your immediate problem and the materials which come from a constant enrichment of your store of general knowledge. Second, the working over of these materials in your mind. Third, the incubating stage, where you let something beside the conscious mind do the work of synthesis. Fourth, the actual birth of the Idea-the “Eureka! I have it!” stage. And fifth, the final shaping and development of the idea to practical usefulness.
Source : A Technique for Producing Ideas
Collected Reading 