Clara Nafria

A funny, inspiring and practical guide to freeing yourself from creative blocks, not taking yourself too seriously, and unlocking your inner creativity. It's full of Hansen's humorous work anecdotes but it is also replete with tangible and actionable methods that anybody can use to become creatively productive and rediscover the joy in creating.

In the media world, the counterpart is:

1. Content-market fit, i.e. making something that people want


2. Community participation, i.e. fostering engagement and participation by an audience


3. Community ownership, i.e. ceding ownership and control to a community

Identifying and getting to know your resistance, especially the parts that get triggered and stop you in your tracks, is how you’ll begin to go beyond what you thought was possible, and appreciate and relate to yourself more fully. 

An essential guide for artists of all levels on how to live and work as a creative, from a popular artist and TED speaker.

At first, I’d say yes to everything — meetings are really valuable when you’re starting off. But I reached a point where I was letting myself get scheduled on six to eight hours of phone calls a day. And when I looked at them, I couldn’t identify what the positive outcomes were — and more importantly, I didn’t enjoy doing it.

Note taking is building a relationship with a future version of yourself.