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Same energy as finding your therapist‘s therapist and thereby winning therapy but fr if an author or any artist changed your life find out who changed theirs! All creative work is an endless chain reaction of people speaking through other people! Follow the path backwards and keep the flame alive!
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The creative process can be extreme humbling. I’ve started reading the artists way because I’m hoping to find something. This is not exactly an ask but if you know any other books or have any recommendations along the same lines of anything that helped you along the way, feel free to share.
Thank you, bye x
Feb 20, 2025
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both books I read in book clubs this year that have definitely set me on a new trajectory in life. the only real common theme between them (one is about Marx’s unpublished ecological/economic work and one is about Mazlow’s unpublished expanded humanist psychology) is the theme of agency in service of communion.
individuals should strive to meet their needs and be their best/truest selves, but this also naturally allows them to aid others in meeting their needs and being their best/truest selves. this concept has been huge for me lately and I have these books to thank for that!
Dec 13, 2024
I’ve generally recommended interior designer Beata Heuman, but her book is also excellent. A lovely excerpt that touched me:
There's a lot of joy in expressing one's individuality. It is freeing. It can be exhilarating. It can also be pretty irresistible when you see the unabashed, true character of another individual. It may be very different from yours, but it is all the more alluring for it.
Although we have all wished to be someone else at some point, we can't actually be anything but what we are. Having the confidence not only to accept that, but celebrate it through self-expression, in all its strangeness and randomness, is to me the zest of life.
May 11, 2024
