Re: RECOMMEND – THE ARTIST'S WAY – A Journey to Uncovering Your Creativity!!

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You beat me on this one!!

I have just read “The Artist’s Way at Work: Riding the Dragon” and was going to mention it on the forum.

If you are having trouble dealing with all the weirdness at work, or are weird at work, this book may help.

I learned a lot about how to survive in the “cube jungle” where most of us eek out some kind of living. In fact, I wish this book was around a long time ago, it certainly would have saved me some major grief.

The funny thing is, that when you start work, no one ever shows you the secondary skills, the survival skills you need to stay employed and still be you. This is especially important for us with ADD because generally we lack the ability to sometimes read social situations very well, and often misread cues that others understand and know readily. A very powerful book. It has caused me to re examine how I work and how I relate to it.

I read the original Artist’s Way, a way, way back when it first was published. That had a profound outlook on how I veiwed creativity. The thing I learned was you can be an artist and you need not lead a bohemian, beatnik, hippie lifestyle starving in a seedy studio with only cold water and a bare light bulb. The idea that artists exist only on the fringes of society is completely wrong. You can be a CEO, a mother, or a mechanic and still be an artist: it’s all about the approach to how you do things. And that creativity is not necessarily constrained to painting, sculpting or any of the traditional preconceived ideas about what creativity is supposed to be about. Creativity is a powerful tool and all can access it. And this creativity can be applied to any situation. A great book.

Thank you Lianne, for mentioning ‘The Artist’s Way’

BTW, I have trouble with the “Morning Pages” thing, but I have to tell you, there is some merit to them; almost like meditation. I shall start them again.

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