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THE CREATIVE HABIT * * * I begin each day of my life with a ritual. This is the renowned choreographer Twyla Tharp from her indispensable book, The Creative Habit.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
Achieving goals means setting rigorous targets and displaying relentless discipline to meet them (a.k.a. “putting in the work”). That’s how you reach your idealized body double.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Artistic technique must be fully integrated into the cells of our bodies if we are to use it to express what is in our hearts, and this takes many years of practice.
Mineko Iwasaki • Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha (Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki)
JamesClear.com • How to Be Motivated Every Day: Lessons Learned From Twyla Tharp
the trick is to design the overall composition of our ecosystem to be as energizing as possible by pairing and combining our activities well.
Amy Whitaker • Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
“warming up into dancing.” Penny Campbell is guiding us into parts of the body: playing the scales of each body part, as one way of opening the whole.
Andrea Olsen • The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making
The truly prolific artists I know always have that question answered, because they have figured out a daily practice—a repeatable way of working that insulates them from success, failure, and the chaos of the outside world.
Austin Kleon • Keep Going
intentional practice that Wooden helped establish. In the book, Coyle describes how the compounded effect of
Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway, Katie Yezzi • Practice Perfect
Whatever you choose, decide on a framework that breaks your normal rhythm and see where it leads.