Ambition, Ability and Achievement
Finding and Using the Passion Inside

© Elliot Essman 2005. All rights reserved.

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• PREFACE
  
• INTRODUCTION

1. NEW

   The Heroism of Everyday Life - The Burden of History is Bunk - Human Consciousness and Human Mind - Trans-Biological Kinesis

2. WALLS

   Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction - The Key to Why We Act - Time for Some Premises - The Reference Matrix - Take Trans-Biological Kinesis Anywhere

3. BLOOD

   The Quality of Being Civilized - The Wrong Reasons - The Right Reasons - Innovation—Civilization's Life Blood - Truth—The Final Frontier - Morality

4. HURT

   Our Most Pervasive Problem - The Only Victory is the Lesson - Reality: It Does Hurt - Mother Nature's Revenge - Demons in Love - Time to Move to Better Things

5. BEER

   Use Only The Finest Quality Ingredients - Create a Rich Atmosphere of Growth - Keep a Vigil for Contaminants - Watch Your Temperature - Let The Process Work - Taste, Test and Readjust - Time for the Second Fermentation - Sharing and Tasting

6. THOUGHT

   Thinking in Projections - Continuous and Discontinuous Thought - Information and Data Management - Prejudice - Belief - Critical Thinking - Major Obstacles - Question Authority

7. SHOCK

   A Sense of Our Own Drama - Trope and Epic States - Shock Exercises for Every Day - The Emotional Basis of Radical Personal Change - Humor as a Shock - Poetry—Controlled Violence - Catharsis and Ablution - Imagination and Shock

8. LOVE

   Make Your Universe Larger - Settle In To Do The Work - Delayed Gratification - Satisfy the Whole Person - Love Isn't Always Permanent - Social Life and Love Life - Basic Kinetic Compatibility - Constant Adjustments - Conflicts and Kinesis

9. ROOTS

   The Family - Generations - Region and Nation - Subculture - Religion - Gender - Social Class - Cultural Roots

10. WORDS

    Inner Vocabulary - Outer Vocabulary - Creative Confusion: Feedback and Meaning - Linguistic Direction - Words as Icons - Using Your Own Voice - Iconic Fuel

11. MASKS

    The Burden of Civilization - Sex: The Inescapable - The Dionysian Human - Violence: The Human Illness - Vectoring the Drive

12. EPILOGUE

13. GLOSSARY