title: 344 Questions: The Creative Person's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment (Voices That Matter)
author:  Stefan G. Bucher 
description: <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal 0 false false false </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <![endif]--><b>Geoffrey Akst</b> and <b>Sadie Bragg</b> have worked together for many years as professors of mathematics at Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York. They met as graduate students at Teachers College, Columbia University, where they were both working on degrees in the teaching of college mathematics. The emphasis on applications in their texts reflects a concern they share for helping students understand why the topics to be studied are useful. Dr. Akst for years has begun his classes with the payoff question: Why is this material worth learning? A native New Yorker, he enjoys surfing the Web, listening to good music, and traveling to exciting places. Dr. Bragg, who began her career in math education as a high school geometry teacher, credits her teachers with inspiring her love for mathematics and an appreciation of its utility. A transplanted Virginian, she spends her time with her family and her beautiful grandchildren.
zlib_text: _**THE**_
  
   _ **COURAGE TO**_
  
   _ **CREATE**_
  
  BY ROLLO MAY
  
  IN NORTON PAPERBACK
  
   _The Courage to Create_
  
   _The Discovery of Being_
  
   _Psychology and the Human Dilemma_
  
   _The Meaning of Anxiety_
  
   _Power and Innocence_
  
   _Freedom and Destiny_
  
  ![](Images/image00070.jpeg)
  
   _ **Contents**_
  
    
    
    
    
  | Preface  
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  ONE| The Courage to Create  
  TWO| The Nature of Creativity  
  THREE| Creativity and the Unconscious  
  FOUR| Creativity and Encounter  
  FIVE| The Delphic Oracle as Therapist  
  SIX| On the Limits of Creativity  
  SEVEN| Passion for Form  
  | Notes  
    
  _**Preface**_
  
  ALL MY LIFE I have been haunted by the fascinating questions of creativity.
  Why does an original idea in science and in art “pop up” from the unconscious
  at a given moment? What is the relation between talent and the creative act,
  and between creativity and death? Why does a mime or a dance give us such
  delight? How did Homer, confronting something as gross as the Trojan War,
  fashion it into poetry which b