Time Travel
I’m reading the book The Artist’s Way and making an effort to go through its exercises. This is one of them.
The book’s goal is to ‘unblock’ artists from the mental obstacles that hold them back from being creative. I’m only in Week One of its twelve-week program (that some people have compared with Alcoholics Anonymous for reasons that I don’t see yet), but I think I understand the structure of it. Daily ‘Morning Pages,’ three handwritten (or, in this modern era, 750 typed words) of stream-of-consciousness every morning to clear my head. Weekly ‘Artist Dates,’ going alone on small adventures which would replenish my inner childlike sense of creativity (nothing boring!). And some tasks to do each week; the book recommends picking the easy ones and also the ones I really don’t want to do.
Two concepts in the book have already shifted my paradigm:
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