On trusting your own process
“People depend on me.” I say, all the more reason to depend on yourself and protect your own creativity.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
part of being a creative-based worker is knowing when to surrender to your instincts to make.
Marlee Grace • How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care
As artists, we seek to restore our childlike perception: a more innocent state of wonder and appreciation not tethered to utility or survival. Our filter inevitably reduces Source intelligence by interpreting the data that arrives instead of letting it pass freely. As the vessel fills with these recast fragments, relationships are created with the
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
While the emotional undercurrents of self-doubt can serve the art, they can also interfere with the creative process. Beginning a work, completing a work, and sharing a work—these are key moments where many of us become stuck. How do we move forward, considering the stories we tell ourselves? One of the best strategies is to lower the stakes.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Think about my process less like a standard to follow and more like a set of training wheels to rely on while exploring your bravery around this new skill you are acquiring in your own unique context.