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    Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
    Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
    Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
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    Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance

    Written by Jonathan Fields

    Narrated by Erik Synnestvedt

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    About this audiobook

    Jonathan Fields knows the risks-and potential power-of uncertainty. He gave up a six-figure income as a lawyer to make $12 an hour as a personal trainer. Then, married with a 3-month old baby, he signed a lease to launch a yoga center in the heart of New York City. . . the day before 9/11. But he survived, and along the way he developed a fresh approach to transforming uncertainty, risk of loss, and exposure to judgment into catalysts for innovation, creation, and achievement.

    Properly understood and harnessed, fear and uncertainty can become fuel for creative genius rather than sources of pain, anxiety, and suffering. In business, art, and life, creating on a world-class level demands bold action and leaps of faith in the face of great uncertainty. But that uncertainty can lead to fear, anxiety, paralysis, and destruction. It can gut creativity and stifle innovation. It can keep you from taking the risks necessary to do great work and craft a deeply-rewarding life. And it can bring companies that rely on innovation grinding to a halt.

    That is, unless you know how to use it to your advantage.
    Fields draws on leading-edge technology, cognitive-science and ancient awareness-focusing techniques in a fresh, practical, non-dogmatic way. His approach enables creativity and productivity on an entirely different level and can turn the once-tortuous journey into a more enjoyable quest. Fields will reveal how to:
    * Make changes to your workflow that unlock buried creative potential.
    * Build "creation hives" -- supportive groups that can supercharge and humanize the process.
    * Tap social technology and user co-creation to add clarity, certainty, and sanity, even if you're an artist or solo-creator.
    * Develop a set of personal practices and mindset shifts that let you not just tolerate, but invite and even amplify, uncertainty as a catalyst for genius.

    Drawing on extensive case studies and research, Fields shares a set of detailed personal practices and environmental changes that can not only humanize the creative process, but also allow individuals and teams to stay more open to opportunity and play a bigger creative game.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateOct 31, 2011
    ISBN9781596599901
    Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
    Author

    Jonathan Fields

    Jonathan Fields is a dad, husband, award-winning author, executive producer, and host of one of the top-ranked podcasts in the world, Good Life Project®, which has been featured everywhere from The Wall Street Journal to O, The Oprah Magazine and even Apple’s iconic annual product event. Jonathan is also the Founder/CEO of Spark Endeavors and lead architect behind the Sparketypes®, an archetyping system and set of tools tapped by over 500,000 individuals and organizations to identify embrace, and cultivate work that makes people come alive, and equip organizations and leaders to more effectively unlock potential, motivation, impact, and joy. Jonathan speaks globally to groups and organizations, and his work has been featured widely in the media, including The New York Times, FastCompany, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc., Elle, Allure, The Guardian, Mind+Body, and more.

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