I love this book! I very much enjoyed hearing your takeaways. As you said, you can start anywhere on any page and find inspiration. I will say their is a lot of Ruben in this book, meaning, I had to read it sitting on a towel to allow the rubinisms to drip from my body. BTW, his podcast is freakin great. Check out this episode with Trent Reznor.
What you said in this episode reminds me of Margaret Atwood's "Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing"—she talks about the person who wrote the thing being a totally different entity from the one who lives the life, does the dishes, walks the dog, and of course, promotes the thing the other one wrote. It's an awkward separation, but maybe a necessary one to protect our creative centre, or even inner child.
Without a doubt. We come to our work a different person than we leave it at the end of any session. There is protection that comes in so many forms. Atwood also is an avid gardener as she was a trained biologist and grounds herself in the dirt daily. How we meet the world as this other entity helps us to make sense of it when we go into our creative minds and try to translate the human experience to others.
I love this book! I very much enjoyed hearing your takeaways. As you said, you can start anywhere on any page and find inspiration. I will say their is a lot of Ruben in this book, meaning, I had to read it sitting on a towel to allow the rubinisms to drip from my body. BTW, his podcast is freakin great. Check out this episode with Trent Reznor.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trent-reznor/id1671669052?i=1000616958858
I love his podcast! I haven't listened to this episode yet, though. So excited, will put it on now!
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What you said in this episode reminds me of Margaret Atwood's "Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing"—she talks about the person who wrote the thing being a totally different entity from the one who lives the life, does the dishes, walks the dog, and of course, promotes the thing the other one wrote. It's an awkward separation, but maybe a necessary one to protect our creative centre, or even inner child.
Without a doubt. We come to our work a different person than we leave it at the end of any session. There is protection that comes in so many forms. Atwood also is an avid gardener as she was a trained biologist and grounds herself in the dirt daily. How we meet the world as this other entity helps us to make sense of it when we go into our creative minds and try to translate the human experience to others.