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John Cleese on the creative process

Excellent reflections on his creative process, the value of "sleeping on it", and the battle between flow and interruption. You’ll be hard pressed to find a better way to spend 10 minutes of your day

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2010 09 24 Jim Practices Comments (1)

The War of Art

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Pressfield, Steven   I recently finished Seth Godin‘s excellent new book Linchpin (see Choosing to Draw Your Own Maps for my review). In it, he devotes a central chapter to the notion of resistance and how we get in our own [...]

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2010 02 19 Jim Books/Reviews Comments (1)

Work and creativity – Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity at TED conference

Eat, Pray, Love is not the sort of book that I’m likely to pick up despite its tremendous success. Nevertheless, this TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert, its author, is an excellent rumination and reflection on choosing the most effective emotional relationship between creativity and work. In a nutshell, the Greeks had it right in their [...]

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2009 03 02 Jim Thinking Comments (1)