The Creative Habit Learn It And Use It For Life Summary
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The Creative Habit
This inspiring, encouraging guide will show every reader--from the author facing a bad case of writer's block, to the business person looking to secure a deal--how to achieve his or her fullest creative potential.
SUMMARY - The Creative Habit: Learn It And Use It For Life By Twyla Tharp
* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. As you read this summary, you will realize that everyone can be creative by following these tips and doing a few daily exercises. You will also learn that : talent is not innate and that you must learn to be creative; fear and distractions are the enemies of your creativity; rituals will help you trigger a creative reflex; putting your ideas in order will allow you to move forward with serenity in your projects; a good knowledge of your strengths and skills will allow you to determine the direction in which to move forward; failures are learning lessons. Twyla Tharp is an American dancer and choreographer. She has been practicing classical and contemporary dance for over thirty-five years. A rich career during which she has produced one hundred and thirty shows. From the opera scenes in Milos Forman's "Amadeus" to the film "Hair", to the opera houses around the world (Paris, London, Sydney), Tharp has made creativity a full-time job. However, the creative reflex is not reserved for artists, whether you are an entrepreneur, an engineer, a cook or a gardener. It instills itself and interferes in all activities. Being creative is not an innate gift, it is learned by working regularly and practicing. Learn how to strengthen your creativity with this great artist. *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!
The Collaborative Habit
In a career that has spanned four decades, choreographer Twyla Tharp has collaborated with great musicians, designers, thousands of dancers, and almost a hundred companies. She's experienced the thrill of shared achievement and has seen what happens when group efforts fizzle. Her professional life has been -- and continues to be -- one collaboration after another. In this practical sequel to her national bestseller The Creative Habit, Tharp explains why collaboration is important to her -- and can be for you. She shows how to recognize good candidates for partnership and how to build one successfully, and analyzes dysfunctional collaborations. And although this isn't a book that promises to help you deepen your romantic life, she suggests that the lessons you learn by working together professionally can help you in your personal relationships. These lessons about planning, listening, organizing, troubleshooting, and using your talents and those of your coworkers to the fullest are not limited to the arts; they are the building blocks of working with others, like if you're stuck in a 9-to-5 job and have an unhelpful boss. Tharp sees collaboration as a daily practice, and her book is rich in examples from her career. Starting as a twelve-year-old teaching dance to her brothers in a small town in California and moving through her work as a fledgling choreographer in New York, she learns lessons that have enriched her collaborations with Billy Joel, Jerome Robbins, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, David Byrne, Richard Avedon, Milos Forman, Norma Kamali, and Frank Sinatra. Among the surprising and inspiring points Tharp makes in The Collaborative Habit: -Nothing forces change more dramatically than a new partnership. -In a good collaboration, differences between partners mean that one plus one will always equal more than two. A good collaborator is easier to find than a good friend. If you've got a true friendship, you want to protect that. To work together is to risk it. -Everyone who uses e-mail is a virtual collaborator. -Getting involved with your collaborator's problems may distract you from your own, but it usually leads to disaster. -When you have history, you have ghosts. If you're returning to an old collaboration, begin at the beginning. No evocation of old problems and old solutions. -Tharp's conclusion: What we can learn about working creatively and in harmony can trans- form our lives, and our world.