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On Purpose with Jay Shetty
It was briefly mentioned and a passage from it was read aloud, emphasizing the importance of 'getting something down' rather than 'thinking something up' in a creative process.
It says Week 7, Recovering a Sense of Connection. We turn this week to the practice of right attitudes for creativity.
— Episode: 6 Ways To Stop Getting Distracted and St...
Episode: 6 Ways To Stop Getting Distracted and Start Gettin...
It was briefly mentioned and a passage from it was read aloud, emphasizing the importance of 'getting something down' rather than 'thinking something up' in a creative process.
It says Week 7, Recovering a Sense of Connection. We turn this week to the practice of right attitudes for creativity.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite, getting something down.
When we get something down, there is no strain. We're not doing, we're getting something.
Episode: 6 Ways To Stop Getting Distracted and Start Gettin...
Jay Shetty read a passage from the book about the importance of 'getting something down' rather than 'thinking something up' in the creative process, as a way of illustrating how books can inspire.
Just as I'm speaking to you about this, I have a book here on my table. It's the Complete Artist's Way by Julia Cameron.
So I'm going to opening up that bookmark says week seven, recovering a sense of connection. We turn this week to the practice of right attitudes for creativity. The emphasis is on your receptive as well as active skills.
Listening, which we're you're doing right now. The ability to listen is a skill we are honing with both our morning pages and our artist dates.
The pages train us to hear past our sensor. The artist dates help us to pick up the voice of inspiration. While both of these activities are apparently unconnected to the actual act of making art, they are critical to the creative process.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite, getting something down. The directions are important here. If we are trying to think something up, we're straining to reach for something that's just beyond our grasp up there in the stratosphere where art lives on high.