By Joe Brown — 1994
SARK’s whimsical, hand-printed, hand-painted books . . . are guides for adults (kids, too) who long to play and be creative, but have forgotten how.
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CLEAR ALL
The concept of the flow, or being in the zone for an artist, is very much like the state an athlete achieves (or strives to achieve) for peak performance. It’s that place beyond all the effort, where time is meaningless and everything just flows.
Research shows there is a ‘sweet spot’ and subjective wellbeing drops off after about five hours.
Play can feel silly, unproductive and time consuming. And that’s precisely the point.
Jay Shetty on his latest book, his experiences living as a monk in India and the necessity of routine in one’s life.
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I have discovered the best ideas come to me at the most random times: in the shower, brushing my teeth, walking in the woods and in the middle of the night.