Persistence and Faith and Hard Work
“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story.”
Writer Anne Lamott continues, “You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain,
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“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story.”
Writer Anne Lamott continues, “You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain,
...Actor, playwright, and screenwriter Zoe Kazan was inspired in part to write her movie “Ruby Sparks” by the story which became the play and movie musical “My Fair Lady.”
“People often avoid the uncomfortable uncertainty of novel solutions regardless of potential benefit.”
That quote comes from the Forbes magazine article Managing The Psychological Bias Against Creativity by Todd Essig,
Creativity researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi declared creative people, based on his extensive studies, are “Both extroverted and introverted, needing people and solitude equally.”
[From my earlier post The Complexity of the Creative Personality.]
I’m not so sure how widely that applies.
...Critics and reviewers can help us find more art to enjoy, and better appreciate the creative process behind it.
But some critics also discount and disparage forms of creative expression that do not match their personal tastes and values.
...Do we need to invest exceptional levels of time and attention in becoming experts before we can make significant creative contributions?
One of the key ideas of author Malcolm Gladwell is that “outliers” on the upper end of intelligence,
...Creative thinking is a vital element in healthy and growing people and cultures.
As The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity puts it, “We live in a society where those who do not creatively innovate risk failure in any of several domains of life.”
...Do you ever find yourself waylaid or compromised in your creative work on account of disrupting trains of thought and anxieties?
It happens to most of us.
......“To begin…To begin…How to start? I’m hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think. Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin.