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The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
by Twyla Tharp

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Publisher Comments:

All it takes to make creativity a part of your life is the willingness to make it a habit. It is the product of preparation and effort, and is within reach of everyone. Whether you are a painter, musician, businessperson, or simply an individual yearning to put your creativity to use, The Creative Habit provides you with thirty-two practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career.

In "Where's Your Pencil?" Tharp reminds you to observe the world — and get it down on paper. In "Coins and Chaos," she gives you an easy way to restore order and peace. In "Do a Verb," she turns your mind and body into coworkers. In "Build a Bridge to the Next Day," she shows you how to clean the clutter from your mind overnight.

Tharp leads you through the painful first steps of scratching for ideas, finding the spine of your work, and getting out of ruts and into productive grooves. The wide-open realm of possibilities can be energizing, and Twyla Tharp explains how to take a deep breath and begin...

Review:

"[An] exuberant, philosophically ambitious self-help book for the creatively challenged."

-- The New York Times Book Review

Review:

"The Creative Habit emphasizes the work habits that lead to success."

-- C. Carr, O: The Oprah Magazine

Review:

"Though its context is a choreographer's world, its principles are universally applicable and sound....It could change your life."

-- Elizabeth Zimmer, The Village Voice

Review:

"Twyla Tharp's amazingly plain-spoken treatise...is a frank, honest, and tough-love testament essentially arguing that art and creativity are matters of hard, old-fashioned work."

-- Sid Smith, The Chicago Tribune

Synopsis:

What makes a person creative? It's not just a dilemma for artists, or aspiring artists. Creativity enters into so many facets of everyday life--deciding what meal to cook, constructing a persuasive memo, or imparting knowledge to a child. In this straight-forward and life-changing book, Twyla Tharp shares the overriding lesson learned during her remarkable thirty-five-year career: creativity is not a mystery. It is not a gift from on high. It is the product of hard work and preparation, of knowing one's aims and one's subject, of learning from approaches taken in the past. Creativity is a habit, and it is within everyone's reach. The Creative Habit is both personal and practical, combining anecdotes from Tharp's life with easy and effective exercises that she uses when facing a creative rut. This inspiring, encouraging guide will show every reader--from the author facing a bad case of writer's block, to the business person looking to secure a deal--how to achieve his or her fullest creative potential.
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS

1 I Walk into a White Room

2 Rituals of Preparation

3 Your Creative DNA

4 Harness Your Memory

5 Before You Can Think out of the Box, You Have to Start with a Box

6 Scratching

7 Accidents Will Happen

8 Spine

9 Skill

10 Ruts and Grooves

11 An "A" in Failure

12 The Long Run

Acknowledgments

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780743235273
Subtitle:
Learn It and Use It for Life
Author:
Tharp, Twyla
Author:
Tharp, Twyla
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Subject:
Creativity
Subject:
Creative Ability
Subject:
Creation (literary, artistic, etc.)
Subject:
General Self-Help
Copyright:
2006
Edition Description:
B102
Publication Date:
January 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
243
Dimensions:
9.05x7.01x.62 in. 1.04 lbs.
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