Rollo May - Anxiety Is A Gateway To Creativity

Thanks to subscriber Zen a Kempis for the recommendation.

Rollo Reece May (April 21, 1909 – October 22, 1994) was an American existential psychologist and author of the influential book Love and Will (1969). He is often associated with humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy, and alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy.

[JamesCormier]

Anxiety, as I've come to experience it, is the confrontation of the life one is living and the life one should be living. To be doing on a daily basis the wrong things. Perhaps it's a dead end job, or you are surrounded by a culture anathema to your existence. Perhaps a dichotomy of what you were taught to believe versus what you know to be true. Society expects us to conform, it wills us to submit. Walk your own path, even if you have to be make a meager living for yourself. Jump, before it is too late!

[sunlion]

“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity” (T. S. Eliot)

[arlieferguson]

You can really hear the influence of Heidegger

[gol.d.rogeer]

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[yomama]

I see where he is coming from. However, I believe the greatest of all art and sport comes from performing and living in a Taoist-like “flow state”. Carl Jung wrote about Kierkegaard’s favorable stance on anxiety in a letter. Interesting read!

[mahammadkarim]

Don't keep expectations from anyone, you don't have anxiety

[phonotical]

Okay google, show me two people talking out of their ass about a topic they know nothing about

[nataliaolexa]

this is pure and outer nonsense, most of anxiety in our world is due to abuse, this guy lives in his bubble, it is really quite shocking that he is one the most appreciated psychologist