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The Creative Habit Learn It and Use It for Life

Twyla Tharp

An inspiring guide to unlocking one's creative potential provides a wealth of exercises, anecdotes, and advice that comprise evaluating one's creative history, stimulating oneself by becoming active, and making time for creative change. 100,000 first printing.

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Huberman Lab

Huberman mentioned Tharp's book, noting her hypothesis that aging slows people because they engage in far less spontaneous movement, a concept he found compelling.

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She has a wonderful book called The Creative Habit. And she claims that as people get older, one of the reasons that they slow down so much is that--she's not a neuroscientist, but she hypothesizes th...

— Episode: How to Expand Your Consciousness | Dr. C...

Episode: How to Expand Your Consciousness | Dr. Christof Ko...

Huberman mentioned Tharp's book, noting her hypothesis that aging slows people because they engage in far less spontaneous movement, a concept he found compelling.

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She has a wonderful book called The Creative Habit. And she claims that as people get older, one of the reasons that they slow down so much is that--she's not a neuroscientist, but she hypothesizes that they engage in a lot less spontaneous movement.

Episode: Master the Creative Process | Twyla Tharp

Huberman praised the book for its direct, actionoriented advice on building schedules and habits that foster creative output, and Twyla said it taught her a great deal.

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I knew I wanted to host Twyla on this podcast after listening to her book, The Creative Habit, where she spells out how to build a schedule, habits, and routines that make your best creative expressions come to life.

The Creative Habit. It's just an incredible book, and it's taught me so much.

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Acquired

This nonfiction book by the American choreographer and dancer offered creative advice on structuring one's life for those who need to think creatively in their work, such as entrepreneurs, executives, or artists. The speaker finally picked it up and finished it after having started it previously.

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So for nonfiction, The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, which was a book that I actually got a long time ago and had been meaning to read, had started, never finished. And I finally picked it back up ag...

— Episode: Episode 29: Special—2016 Review and 2017...

Episode: Episode 29: Special—2016 Review and 2017 Predictio...

This nonfiction book by the American choreographer and dancer offered creative advice on structuring one's life for those who need to think creatively in their work, such as entrepreneurs, executives, or artists. The speaker finally picked it up and finished it after having started it previously.

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So for nonfiction, The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, which was a book that I actually got a long time ago and had been meaning to read, had started, never finished. And I finally picked it back up again and finished it this year.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Bowen Yang recommended 'The Creative Habit' by Twyla Tharp, suggesting it helped him overcome a creative block by simply setting aside time to be creative.

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Everyone should read the creative habit by twilight tharp because I remember this is what she talks about you just have to set aside The time and it's not even about whether or not you're in a rut

— Episode: "Mila & Natalie Announce the Las Culturi...

Episode: "Mila & Natalie Announce the Las Culturistas Cultu...

Bowen Yang recommended 'The Creative Habit' by Twyla Tharp, suggesting it helped him overcome a creative block by simply setting aside time to be creative.

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Everyone should read the creative habit by twilight tharp because I remember this is what she talks about you just have to set aside The time and it's not even about whether or not you're in a rut

The Daily Stoic

Twyla Tharp describes the importance of routine in her book. She says that once she gets in the car in the morning, the rest of her day takes care of itself.

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She's saying that all she basically has to do in the morning is get downstairs into the cab.

— Episode: You’ve Got Another Think Coming | How To...

Episode: You’ve Got Another Think Coming | How To Get and S...

Twyla Tharp describes the importance of routine in her book. She says that once she gets in the car in the morning, the rest of her day takes care of itself.

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She's saying that all she basically has to do in the morning is get downstairs into the cab.

If she gets downstairs into the cab, the rest takes care of itself because then she has, she gets in the studio, she gets inside.

Episode: Morgan Wade On Sticking To The Routine

The book was mentioned in relation to the author's morning routine and the feeling of victory upon starting the day. A quote from the book about already winning once leaving the apartment was discussed.

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there's this dancer name is Twila Thorpe she wrote this book called the creative habit and she's talking about she gets up she starts a routine and she's like when I leave my apartment and I'm waiting for the cab she's like I already won

Episode: Coach Bob Bowman on Balancing Stillness and Excell...

This book was mentioned in relation to the willpower needed for swimming. The author discusses how the mental preparation leading up to an activity is crucial for success.

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I read this there's this great book called the the creative habit by Twilith Art but she's a great choreographer and she was saying like for her the workout is actually it's from waking up getting dressed walking down stairs and getting in the cab if she can do that then the workout will happen right because like once she gets in the cab to go to the studio she's never she's never not not followed through from there but if she doesn't do the the proceeding steps to start the process obviously nothing else can happen and I feel like really the willpower in swimming is is the I'm willing to jump in the cold water at 6 a.m. and swim those couple crappy laps that's the the what separates the the amateurs from the professionals

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