How to turn the "pain you can't get rid of" into creativity
What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
kept rage diaries, where I vented against my situation, against my body and its betrayals, against the well-meaning exhortations from others to “stay positive” and to “keep looking for the silver lining.” I recorded my fever dreams. I doodled. I made lists. I explored things I couldn’t say out loud, that I hadn’t been able to admit to others or eve
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To effect a creative recovery, we must undergo a time of mourning. In dealing with the suicide of the “nice” self we have been making do with, we find a certain amount of grief to be essential. Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth. Without this creative moistening, we may remain barren. We must allow the bolt of pain to strike us. Rem
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