Dr Rachel Connor
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Dr Rachel Connor
our own creativity should draw upon the wisdom of our wounds if it wants to reach others in a meaningful way.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
Creativity: “I can’t get new ideas staring at a blank page. Creativity, for me, requires motion. When you go on a walk, you can turn your world into an idea-generating sensorium, and ideas will spring up from the most unlikely sources. There is one thing that’s absolutely certain about creativity: It’s an active process, not a passive one. The best... See more
Ryan Hawk • Episode #464: Polina Pompliano – Profiles Of The World’s Greatest Performers, Makers vs. Managers, & Building Trust Through Consistency
“Why is this so hard? Because you’re utterly habituated to steady progress—to completing things, to producing, to solving. When progress is subtle or slow, when there’s no clear way to proceed, you flinch away. You redirect your attention to something safer, to something you can do. You jump to implementation prematurely; you feel a compulsion
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Crossing the Threshold: The Moment Your Story Becomes an Adventure
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Grief can open the door to holy desire, which in turn leads us into the arms of that which we yearn for.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
Process Syndrome is closely linked to Learning Syndrome . Processors believe they just need to learn the right method and follow it to realize their creative dream. This often results in “going through the motions”of creation without ever entering a state of deep creative flow or producing something original.
Processes replace the ambiguous creative... See more
Processes replace the ambiguous creative... See more
