For most of us, each day is a frantic attempt to make order out of chaos. We work in office cubicles, travel on grid-like streets, and live in rectangular houses - but we never escape the vague sense that the world is in truth messy, fractured, and unpredictable. Obsessed with control, we have failed to realise that chaos is a fundamental, and unavoidable force in nature. Fighting it is a cause doomed to failure, but we can channel and use chaos. Authors John Briggs and F. David Peat are experts on chaos theory, the science of nonlinear change and the unpredictable. In their new book, Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change, they present a revolutionary convergence of cutting-edge science and timeless wisdom to show how we can use the forces of chaos to dramatically improve our daily lives. Seven Life Lesson of Chaos is an easy-to-understand guide to the creative possibilities of chaos. As Briggs and Peat explain the basis of fractals (the chaotic patterns of nature), vortexes and feedback loops, they also explore how we can use the chaos metaphor to understand the social systems around us and to nurture a deep connection with the natural world. The seven lessons are centered on the principle of interconnected wholeness and include the attached contents. Briggs and Peat believe that our modern society, with its rigid, hierachical structures, is in direct conflict with the natural forces of chaos. To regain our sense of place in the world, we need to relinquish our mechanical perspective that breaks all systems into basic building blocks, and instead embrace the truth that all the universe's systems are interrelated and connected to each other, like one living being. With over seventy photographic illustrations, Seven Life Lessons fo Chaos reveals the hidden patterns and intricate beauty of the forces that govern our human experience.