Key insights from
The Courage to Create
By Rollo May
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9 minute read
Published Mar 17, 1994
What you'll learn
Life requires different kinds of courage, but the late psychologist Rollo May argued that none is more important than the courage to create. For May, courage is the fountainhead of all virtues, and imagination, far from simply icing on the existential cake, is the source of human achievement and meaning in our lives.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 There are two options in the face of cultural transitions: resign oneself to what will be, or face the chaos and forge a path through it.
- 2 Courage is not one virtue among many, but the foundation upon which true virtue is cultivated.
- 3 There’s no more important form of courage than the courage to create.
- 4 Engaging art in a meaningful way is itself an act of creative courage.
- 5 Yesterday’s rebels are today’s saints.
- 6 There is no genuine creation without limits.
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