This morning, we opened Stephen Nachmanovitch’s Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art to this…
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Ask This Simple Question to Disarm Your Self-Critical Inner Voice
We found a lovely, simple way to reframe those big existential questions everyone seems to ask themselves about whether they are enough…
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the virtues of doubt (paul zelevansky)
(Video link here.) In the annals of self-helpism, doubt is considered something to overcome, to find ways around, to MASTER. We’ve discovered time and again that that is easier said than done. Doubt seems to come with territory of being creative, and most of the people we know just find ways to soldier through…or be…
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leonardo da vinci’s self-doubt
From our friends at A+B See: In a review of Leonardo and the Last Supper in the January 14, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. we learn that in his time, Da Vinci had a reputation for being a “dilatory and even unreliable worker whose career was strewn with abandoned projects.” According to author, Ross King, he was…
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revise: ‘here’s to the crazy ones’ via apple + tyler knott
(Video link here.) Several times during the past week, we heard several very creative people we know say “Sometimes I wonder if I’m crazy” meaning…crazy to be doing this…or that…or whatever uncharted path they’ve embarked upon that is not THE NORM. In honor of them, and to antidote the feeling that “crazy” is bad, we…
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