Imitating—copying—is how humans learn. As we study and copy from the masters, we learn our own rhythms, our own lines, our own meters of meaning. “Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.” ~ Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You…
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How to Get Unstuck: The Art of Deliberate Decision-Making
If you want to know how to get unstuck, you have to be willing to look at how you make decisions. “Sometimes, the only cost to experience an ecstatic moment is a decision.”― Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana I selected a corner table in a café off Avenue Montaigne in Paris’s 8th arrondissement. I had spent the…
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Ask for Help: How to Come to Terms with Disorder
When your load feels heavy or cumbersome, ask for help. “There’s a lovely term in Irish, trína chéile, which means everything’s been turned upside down. The ability to let your experience turn upside down, to let yourself not know, to be trína chéile for a while, is very, very important.”~ David Whyte, Listening in with…
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Truth Telling as the Art of Living
Creativity calls for truth telling. “A lot of growing up is learning to shift the responsibility from the other to the self.” ~ Brian Koppelman (from his interview on The Tim Ferriss Show) “The word integrity (from integer) means ‘wholeness.’ Living in integrity means expressing and doing what’s true for you in all situations. Depart from…
Finding Yourself Again: Creativity and the Beginning of Remembering
Sometimes creativity is about finding yourself, again and again — each new beginning a remembering. “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyondany experience, your eyes have their silence:in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose methough i have…
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The Structure of How to Surrender
Even if we understand the value of letting go, giving in, and stopping the fight in the creative process, we often don’t know how to surrender. “Every born Wayfinder goes through stages of self-realization:loneliness, striving, disappointment, surrender, release,and then the slow awakening to a world where magic is realand miracles commonplace. The journey is worth…
