books about creativity

 on a cold snowy fall day, read a book...

 short, but interesting,

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Almost never yell

If angry, step back.

Have no scruples about getting what you absolutely need, to be endlessly resourceful

Accept suggestions gracefully from any and all

Power of thank you
--> Before the writing, the painting, the dancing, there is getting up at 5:30 to go to the gym, getting ready for the job of creating… 

 new Mormon spokeswoman,
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Reverent rituals, at the heart, rich and gentle, a variety of faith, a plan of salvation, also known as the plan of happiness, the crux of faith “one foot in front of the other”.  “some difficult things we just put on the shelf, until we can take them up with God directly” 

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 Steal like an artist, Austin Kleon,
get busy copying, pay attention to side projects, write the book you want to read, use your hands, fake it until you make it. simple

 Banned! for imagining quotations, Jonah Lehrer, still great fiction, how to be creative? be exceedingly sad, take speed, creativity is an emergent property, make connections, cultivate the views of the amateur outsider, once you have perfected your technique, don't worry about making a mistake.  Entertaining, engaging, apparently invented.

 Steven Johnson, Where good ideas come from, lots of spare parts lying around, recast into new uses, connections, cultivate the slow hunch, and those  hobbies, go for a walk, cultivate the adjacent possible, embrace serendipity, write everything down, but keep the folders messy. Good ideas, readable, provocative...

 Back to Twyla Tharp, The creative habit.  Lots of good stories, about dancers.

 drawing of mojo looking out the window in  winter

three drawings inspired by Ellsworth Kelly

 Best book over, Dr. Doolittle and the Secret Lake, by Hugh Lofting, survivors of the Flood, rescued by turtles.Turtles have to swim under the water to find food in the buried under water towns.  The turtles, from the flood, very old turtles, tell the story to Dr. Dolittle.

Great book about Learning, Teaching, Emergent Complexity...Engaging Minds, Davis, Sumara, and Luce Kaplan.  Read it all the time.