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Actually, pigeonholing is something people need to do in order to feel that they have set the chaos of existence into some kind of reassuring order.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
The noted neurologist and author Oliver Sacks had this to say about originality, in his essay “Prodigies” from the book An Anthropologist on Mars: Creativity, as usually understood, entails not only a “what,” a talent, but a “who”—strong personal characteristics, a strong identity, personal sensibility, a personal style, which flow into the talent,
... See moreHaruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation: The master storyteller on writing and creativity
He claims that in order to discover the truth, one must first know oneself fully. And to do that, one must remove oneself from one’s customary point of view, even from one’s own century and country—and then examine oneself from a distance!”
Irvin D. Yalom • When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
“My creative expression must be the most important thing in the world to me (if I am to live artistically), and it also must not matter at all (if I am to live sanely).”
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one’s friends, was the absence of scrutiny—the horror of living an unobserved life.
Irvin D. Yalom • When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
Carry It with You Now write the thought on a small piece of paper and hold it up.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
Mihaly made the case for “positive psychology”: that we should primarily focus on the things that make life worth living, and find ways to boost them.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
When artists are burdened with the label of “genius,” I think they lose the ability to take themselves lightly, or to
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
a peaceful, meaningful existence.