ABSTRACT
The legendary track and field athlete and four-time Olympic Gold Medalist Jesse Owens could have been mistaken for a seasoned psychoanalyst when he said, "The battles that count are not the ones for gold medals". The capacity to flourish at work begins with taking heed of Freud's wise counsel that when it comes to deciding on a career direction, one should be guided by the "deep inner needs of people's nature". In addition to engaging in such novel, spontaneous self-creation, a "really alive" person is also willing and able to be self-consecrating and self-sacrificing. Creativity is novel in the sense that it points to that which is unique, original and different, always in a thrilling, self-renewing way. Creative testimony, says Gabriel Marcel, is a "witness to the spiritual". To admire someone else's intelligence, work product, good character or looks, for example, is experienced as humiliating and, hence, is vigorously resisted.
