"The unknown is a fearful place, and anything new is a step into the unknown."

-Twyla Tharp

                Overall I thought “The Creative Habit” was a good book. It taught you how to shape yourself all around to become a better creative thinker. What I liked most about this book was that it is the few of many books I've read that actually ties back to the beginning. Most books have weird titles and you never know why sometimes. With Twyla’s book it all made sense to me once I finished the book and in class today when I happened to actually read the title of the book without just glancing at it.  What Twyla was trying to get you to do throughout the whole book was to make creativity a habit.  To bring creativity into your life you have to be accepting and willing to make it a habit. By following all the steps in her book one can then make creativity a habit in their life from now on, or realize it has been a habit in their life this whole time. Throughout her life she has been striving to make creativity a habit and has done so and provided in this book the steps to not only begin creativity but once you find it, how to keep it rolling and where to go with it.

                Twyla’s book taught me a lot and I’m glad I was able to take so much from it.  She was the one who finally showed me why I have such bad stage fright, why I hate public speaking, and etc. It was because of fears always in the back of my head. I never really thought to take notice of them until I read her chapter titled “Rituals of preparation.”  In it she has a list of fears that always paralyzed her creativity. I found that I pretty much relate to all of them. This list of fears showed me the root of my problems I mentioned before, I just never took the time to actually try and see what was stopping me. Now that I have discovered what has been getting in the way of my creativity, I can work on getting rid of these fears to better help myself.