by Kathryn | 4 Dec 2022 | Courage
Jump straight to today's prompt here. How does it feel to be in your element? In his book, The Courage to Create, the psychologist Rollo May observes that a crucial aspect of creativity is ‘the freedom of artists to give all the elements within themselves free play.’...
by Kathryn | 3 Dec 2022 | Courage
Jump straight to today's prompt here. Who dares wins, according to the British Special Air Service (SAS) motto. We dare to try,dare to win. Another dare is contained in the motto of the Enlightenment, Sapere aude. Dareto know. In creativity and innovation, a better...
by Kathryn | 2 Dec 2022 | Courage
Jump straight to today's prompt here. Creativity is about making something from nothing. It’s amazing. Where once there was a blank screen, an empty canvas, a dry block of land, now there is a book, a painting, a house. Unsurprising, then, that this extraordinary act...
by Kathryn | 1 Dec 2022 | Courage
Jump straight to today's prompt here. What do you want in the next phase of your creative life? Naming what you want is a brave act. But sometimes, it can be hard to be clear. Sometimes, what you want can look pretty fuzzy. Once, in my twenties, a therapist gave me a...
by Kathryn | 30 Nov 2022 | Courage
Jump straight to today's prompt here. When I was thirteen, I was sleeping over at my friend Jenny’s house. Her father was a musician. He played folk music, which Jenny and I considered boring and for old people. On this particular weekend, Jenny’s father had been...
by Kathryn | 29 Nov 2022 | Courage
Jump straight to today's prompt here. A few years ago, Liane Moriarty, the author of Big Little Lies, was a little burnt out. Her books have sold millions of copies and been adapted for the screen by Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon – and with that wild success...
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