“Creativity takes courage. ”
Personally for me, Twyla Tharp’s book “The Creative Habit”
has been very interesting. It is one of those books where I actually can pay
attention to what I’m reading and not fall asleep because it does not interest
me. I think Twyla was clever in how she set her book up. When reading it she
makes words bigger than others or sets the page up differently than that of a
standard page in a book. She finds a way to not only write about creativity but
to also make that writing creative. What I liked a lot from reading her book are
the struggles she talks about in regards to creativity. One of her quotes stood
out which was “Some people find this moment-the moment before creativity
begins-so painful that they simply cannot deal with it.”(5) I always find this
to be exactly how I feel before starting something. I find it painful because I
always have that feeling of fear that it won’t be good enough or I’ll make an
idiot out of myself. But what I do find is that the feeling of fear does not
last forever. Once you actually start the creativity process of what you are
working on the rest will come naturally. This happened to me last year when I had
to create a dance using dancers from the dance department to show in the senior
recital. I had no idea what song to use or how to even start it. But after a
few weeks I started trying and making choreography and soon it all came
together perfectly. But the time before when I was in the decision making
process was the hardest part because Twyla was right, it is so hard to deal with
because it’s not only stressful but it brings up all these free floating fears;
that continually are what you can only think about getting in the way of your
creative process.
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