Dr Rachel Connor
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Dr Rachel Connor
“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
... See moreAndy, Matuschak • Cultivating Depth and Stillness in Research
The Serviceberry
penguin.co.uk
Connecting into why it’s valuable. Sometimes you get so lost in a project that you forget why you started it in the first place, or why doing this kind of work is important to you at all. If you reconnect to that, you’ll raise the perceived value of doing the work in your brain—and it will make it easier to stick with. Try writing about why the... See more
Dan Shipper • Why You're Not Doing Creative Work
"The basement of creativity holds our deepest fears and wildest dreams. We must descend its stairs to find the raw materials of our art."
- Carl Jung, from his essays on creative process
our own creativity should draw upon the wisdom of our wounds if it wants to reach others in a meaningful way.