My book about order and chaos

My latest book is yet another non-fiction, this time capturing my interest in philosophy and psychology.

This book is about:

• truth - the importance of being truthful. As Friedrich Nietzsche said, "The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate.",

• taking personal responsibility for one’s own life (as opposed to being a victim of circumstances),

• applying discipline to grow (growth being a critical part of feeling fulfilled).

It’s about self-empowerment. It’s about living courageously but at the same time playfully.

Here’s an excerpt from this book:

Inherently, order and chaos are neither positive nor negative; they are a part of an ongoing creation and of change.

On the one hand, chaos stirs and excites. It presents possibilities. Chaos allows us to take ideas and objects apart and reconnect them in a unique way. Without chaos, there could be no evolution. Chaos is the foundation of our existence.

But when there’s too much chaos, things become uncontrollable and messy; they start to fall apart. Chaos can destroy any existing order. And the more complex the existing order is (like a system), the more it’s pulled towards its polar opposite (chaos), and the harder it is to balance those two forces (i.e. to be in an optimal state of creativity and prosperity). What’s more, chaos can threaten safety, and out of that threat, conflict can easily arise.

On the other hand, it is through order that we are moved towards establishing patterns and making meaningful connections. Order is structure. It’s planning and orderly execution. Order is strength and stability; stability that makes it possible to increase the complexity of a given system. Without order, there could be no complexity. Without order, there could be no evolution. It’s the foundation for our existence.

Evolution, in that sense, is nothing other than complexity built upon itself. Progress, a human offshoot of evolution, is the ability to look into the future and to organize, arrange, design, plan, prepare, and improve. Also, to control.

But when there’s too much order, progress stagnates, and things become too safe and predictable, too rigid, unresponsive to life’s changes, and eventually unmanageable. Such systems sooner or later crumble and become consumed by chaos.