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Happy Thursday folks!

Here is my favorite passage of the week, two quotes and book of the week with two important lessons to ponder on:

Passage of the Week:

Neuroscientist and Author Nicole Vignola on the importance of journalling:

Two Quotes:

Book of the Week with 2 Important Lessons:

The book of the week is The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin.

Incredible, inspiring, and absolutely beautiful read. The book is filled with short chapters on creativity, and it will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. I would highly recommend this book to one and everyone.

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us.

It is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime’s work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments and lifetimes of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us. A must-read for any artist or wanna-be artist.

Here are two important lessons from the book:

1) All Art is a Work in Progress:

All art is a work in progress. It’s helpful to see the piece we’re working on as an experiment. One in which we can’t predict the outcome. Whatever the result, we will receive useful information that will benefit the next experiment.

If you start from the position that there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and creativity is just free play with no rules, it’s easier to submerge yourself joyfully in the process of making things.

We’re not playing to win, we’re playing to play. And ultimately, playing is fun. Perfectionism gets in the way of fun. A more skillful goal might be to find comfort in the process. To make and put out successive works with ease. Some things are too important to be taken seriously and art is one of those things. Setting the bar low, especially to get started, frees you to play, explore, and test without attachment to results.

2) Beginner’s Mind:

To see what no human has seen before, to know what no human has known before, to create as no human has created before, it may be necessary to see as if through eyes that have never seen, know through a mind that has never thought, create with hands that have never been trained.

This is beginner’s mind, one of the most difficult states of being to dwell in for an artist, precisely because it involves letting go of what our experiences have taught us.

Beginner’s mind is starting from a pure childlike place of not knowing. Living in the moment with as few fixed beliefs as possible. Seeing things for what they are as presented. Tuning in to what enlivens us in the moment instead of what we think will work. And making our decisions accordingly. Any preconceived ideas and accepted conventions limit what’s possible.

Books I am currently reading:

Win the Inside Game: How to Move from Surviving to Thriving, and Free Yourself Up to Perform by Steve Magness. It is focused on achieving sustainable success by shifting from a high-stress, externally driven mindset to one centered on inner fulfillment and clarity.

Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament by Michael A. Singer. A transformative and highly anticipated guide that will be your compass on an exciting new journey toward self-realization and unconditional happiness.