The Creative Habit (2003) (edit title/settings)

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• “"HOW TO BE LUCKY: Be generous. I don't use that word lightly. Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune." - p. 136”

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• To get the creative habit, you need a working environment that’s habit-forming.

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• It’s vital to establish some rituals—automatic but decisive patterns of behavior—at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at peril of turning back, chickening out, giving up, or going the wrong way.

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• If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

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• Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else’s footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.

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• Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

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• Venturing out of your comfort zone may be dangerous, yet you do it anyway because our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

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• Without passion, all the skill in the world won’t lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

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• “Every day you don’t practice you’re one day further from being good.” If it’s something you want to do, make the time.

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• The Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn says that ideas can be acted upon in four ways. First, you must generate the idea, usually from memory or experience or activity. Then you have to retain it—that is, hold it steady in your mind and keep it from disappearing. Then you have to inspect it—study it and make inferences about it. Finally, you have to be able to transform it—alter it in some way to suit your higher purposes.

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• By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.

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Preceded by Ethics for the Real World, and followed by The Myths of Innovation.

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1. Twyla Tharp (Author)

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• Dewey: 153.35

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• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › By Topic › Creativity
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Self-Help › Creativity
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › Cognitive