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The Creative Habit

Learn It and Use It for Life

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The Creative Habit

By: Twyla Tharp
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
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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 32 practical exercises based on the lessons Twyla Tharp has learned in her remarkable 35-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....

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Mainly a vehicle for Twyla to talk about herself. Some good bits but couldn't finish it.

Mainly a vehicle for Twyla to talk about herself.

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A thoroughly absorbed listen, Tharps voice filled with determination, a real spine strengenthing conversation, really useful for starting out in 2021

Tharp the well defined creator.

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This is without question, a truly great book on creative processes. Twlya shares her own creative processes so that we can learn, develop, extend, enjoy and play with our own creative processes. With plenty of anecdote from a long career, the book is also part fascinating memoir, which holds interest and gives depth to the book. the techniques and habits Twyla Tharp describes are immediately useful and can be applied to just about anything, from cooking dinner to writing a novel. One of the most refreshing aspects of the book is that it is about dance and movement, so she brings an new, fresh perspective. I can't recommend it too highly and also can't believe that someone gave it a one star rating - don't take any notice of that. this is a really great book.

Brilliant insight into a creative life

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I'm glad I listened to it but she does sound like she's bragging about herself a lot!

interesting and enlightening.

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Twyla Tharp shares how she goes about her creative side. Yes it focuses on Dance but that's where she's spent her career. I still found this an enjoyable and thought provoking book.
The narrator is first rate as well.

A good source of inspiration.

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