Tickling Salmon

This is the sequel to Robert Fritz’s book The Path of Least Resistance. Think of it as an anti-self-help book — Robert believes that the current generation spends far too much time trying to “feel good” and not enough time actually making stuff.

Table of Contents

(paraphrased; many of Robert’s chapter titles are clever but not very clear)

1. Part One: The Creative Process
1. Creating
2. Dynamic Tension
3. Exercise: Making a Simple Creation
2. Part Two: Distinctions
1. Learners vs. Performers
2. Conflicts between Ideals, Beliefs, and Reality
3. You Are Not Your Creation
4. Focus on Self vs. Focus on Creation
5. The Worldview
3. Part Three: Creating What Matters to You
1. A Warm-Up to Creating
2. Finding Out What Matters to You
3. Creating What Matters to You
4. Have a Place to Go
5. Your Life as a Creator
6. Creating with Partners
7. Creating Long-Term Projects
4. Part Four: The Many Universes of a Creator
1. Many Universes
2. Who?
3. A Review

If you find your eyes glazing over in part two, just skip to part three — that’s where the meat is.