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On the compulsion to create
Cartoonist and artist Julie Doucet on what it feels like to look back at her expansive body of work, and the limits of making personal work.
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Why Reading is Fundamental to Creativity
Getting in the zone and staying there.
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This 10-Minute Routine Will Increase Your Clarity And Creativity
“Your subconscious mind works continuously, while you are awake, and while you sleep.” — Napoleon Hill
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Overnight Success
Overnight success. There is no such thing. Everything that results in sustainable fulfillment requires patience, overcoming of obstacles, and persistence. The majority of successful people you read about lose (a lot) before they win.
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Getting Ahead By Being Inefficient
Inefficient does not mean ineffective, and it is certainly not the same as lazy. You get things done – just not in the most effective way possible. You’re a bit sloppy, and use more energy. But don’t feel bad about it. There is real value in not being the best.
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Dedicated Prayer Day
Jeremiah 29:12-13 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. From week…
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How to Be Creative
Great news! You can be a creator. Follow these steps to find your inner writer, composer, finger-painter, chef, lyricist, entrepreneur or professional Tweeter.
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On why you must keep moving
Comedian, writer, and actor Yassir Lester on finding the rhythm that works best for you, and being comfortable with letting ideas go.
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Misbehaving: being clever and wicked is a form of creativity
We confirmed the contention that the dark side of creativity exists, and is one that it’s important to acknowledge and understand. People can get hurt in surprising and original ways by practitioners of this dark craft. And, just as important, an entire set of misbehaviours with the potential to help us learn more about human creativity may be going unnoticed and ignored.
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Artist Reimagines Everyday Objects as Spectacular Spaceship Designs
As children, many of us would have played with inanimate objects and integrated them into our fantasy adventures—perhaps a TV remote became a rocket, or a shoe was a steamboat. One artist who is keeping childhood imagination alive is San Francisco-based digital artist Eric Geusz, who turns everyday objects into spectacular spaceship designs.
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Build For You First. For Your Friends Second. For The World, Last.
I think it’s intimidating to build anything. No wait. It’s fucking terrifying to build anything. Because you’re creating something that has meaning to you, and putting it out in front of the whole world to see. And analyse. And criticise. And hate. And maybe, if you’re lucky, love.
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Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work
In a 2012 exhibition about the birth of abstraction at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, curators highlighted the way that the artists may have influenced one another. Titled “Inventing Abstraction: 1910–1925,” the show illustrated over 80 artists’ radical departures from the traditions of representational art, and opened with a large diagram depicting their network to show who knew each other (an interactive version of which is online), with the most connected, like Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky, toward the center.
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But why do fear and doubt accompany creativity?
Why is it that fear and doubt accompany creativity? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could just get on and paint or write or act without self-sabotage?
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On writing stories with images
Writer and artist Leanne Shapton on multi-channel storytelling, unconventional creative routines, and balancing personal and professional work.
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On feeding and releasing the ego
YouTuber and marketing consultant Rachel Nguyen on independence versus collaboration, honoring your boundaries, and internal and external spaces.
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A Path to Professionalizing II: My Process
In his latest installment, Benjamin Buchholz shares his tried-and-true tips for battling the blank page.
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Creativity is not just for the young, study finds
If you believe that great scientists are most creative when they’re young, you are missing part of the story. A new study of winners of the Nobel Prize in economics finds that there are two different life cycles of creativity, one that hits some people early in their career and another that more often strikes later in life. In this study, the early peak was found for laureates in their mid-20s and the later peak for those in their mid-50s.
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How to Promote Yourself Even If You Hate, Fear, or Despise Self-Promotion
It is done! Your book, your article, your course, your product. After all your hard work, blood, sweat, and tears, the thing is finished. Now, it’s time to sell it. Get people to buy it. Read it. Adopt it. It’s time to find clients, find an audience, find rabid fans. In other words, it’s time to self-promote. Did you just die a little inside when you heard those words? Did your heart skip a beat and your body temperature drop as a cold shiver snaked up your spine?
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On not wasting any time
Writer Tommy Pico on moving from poetry to screenplays, the things you sacrifice for your work, and shaking off imposter syndrome.
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Defeating "Imposter Syndrome" with Observation and Determination
Imposter syndrome goes beyond genuine humility. It lies about your own accomplishments and exaggerates the accomplishments of others. And the worst part of imposter syndrome isn’t how it makes you feel – it’s what it makes you stop doing that you really want to do.
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