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Musician Henry Rollins commented about being a performer and staying healthy on road tours:
“Eating well is becoming easier on the road as more places are health conscious. Gyms are easy to find anywhere there’s electricity …
Eric Maisel
Why do we procrastinate in our creative life? How can we change?
Being a creative person inspires us to write, compose, make and perform. But what about those times we hold ourselves back? This video is part of a scene in one of the great movies about the inner life of artists and the uncertainties and stresses of that life: “Adaptation.” Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman [Nicolas Cage] is […]
Dealing With Stress To Be More Creative
Creativity coach, author and psychologist Eric Maisel, PhD, notes “Some people become doctors, lawyers, accountants, or marketing executives. Some people stay at home and raise a family.
“But millions of people make another sort of choice, …
Mistakes Fuel Creativity and Innovation
What seems to be a setback, error or limitation, may often be valuable for encouraging more creative thinking and innovation.
Valerie Young writes about two “mistakes” that resulted in very successful products:
“Did you know, for exam…
Lena Dunham on Creating From “The Parts of Me I Find The Most Shameful”
The acclaimed HBO series “Girls” was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding comedy series. I have appreciated the perspectives of creator and star Lena Dunham on being multitalented, and on using many of her “neurotic” qualities (which we all have, after all) for writing about the lives of a group of young women in New York. In […]