The Creative Mind
the inner workings and challenges of life as a creative
sari and
The Creative Mind
the inner workings and challenges of life as a creative
sari and
The truth is that one day you hate yourself, and the next day you can’t wait to use your gifts
-Adam Jk
For his first 6 years of trying to be a songwriter, Paul Simon wrote terrible songs. “They were all terrible,” his biographer Robert Hilburn said, “I found his old demos—there’s about 50 of them—and it’s unbelievable: there isn’t one good song.” Finally, in the fall of 1963, Simon made a vow: After spending those first 6 years mostly “copying what
... See morewhat a great little story
“We’re pretty good at allowing our incorrect certainties to slowly fade into the background, without a crisis or reckoning. We gradually move on, now even more certain about the other things we’re certain of.
Resilience can be found by holding onto our certainties just a little less tightly. One way to do that is to remember just how often the old ones fade away.”