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Creative Well-Being



We are all gifted with creativity and imagination, but for some of us, the drive to create, combine, invent, or transform permeates all aspects of our well-being. This urge brings great beauty, joy, and delight into the world, but it can come with its own challenges, especially when we live in a culture that measures the value of our work only in commercial potential. Creatives can live in constant tension between self-discovery and self-criticism, freedom and security. Finding balance and joy within this identity can be a journey that requires courage and self-compassion.

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The Gap by Ira Glass

A video on the importance of 'taste' in creativity and storytelling.

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Performance Success: Performing Your Best Under Pressure

Performance Success teaches a set of skills so that a musician can be ready to go out and sing or play at his or her highest level, working with energies that might otherwise be wasted in unproductive ways. This is a book of skills and exercises, prepared by a master teacher.

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Fostering Creativity: 12 Tips for Boosting Your Creative Skills

Creativity has been valued throughout human history. It has also been called “the skill of the future” (Powers, 2018).

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Ira Glass–The Perpetual Struggle to Find Your Creative Voice

As part of the Create Forever campaign with FUJIFILM, we got a chance to sit down with the legendary Ira Glass and explore why he creates along with what it takes to find that thing that only you can make.

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The Bright Way: Five Steps to Freeing the Creative Within

Written for all creatives from young adults to seniors, The Bright Way’s empowering and reliable system works for a lifetime to help you: • move through creative blocks so that your creativity consistently flows • transform performance fear into joyful sharing of your work • finally let go...

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The Cure to a Creative Block is Making Something You’ll Never Show Anyone Else

So making songs now that I know aren’t going to be heard by anybody else, it is an interesting thing. Because I think you have to do that now as an artist. I really do. —Donald Glover, Grantland interview

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Writing Down The Bones: 30 Years Later

A Feb. 7, 2016 interview with author Natalie Goldberg on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of her phenomenally successful self-help for writers book, "Writing Down The Bones."

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Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity

In Embrace Your Weird, New York Times bestselling author, producer, actress, TV writer, and award-winning web series creator, Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle, or expand your creative passions.

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How to Survive Being Laid Off

Being laid off can be a financial nightmare, but what isn’t talked about enough is the psychic toll it takes, and the decisions we make around work in the aftermath.

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Tarcher Talks: Julia Cameron—Artist's Dates

Part 2 - Julia talks about Artist's Dates, another tool, and how to use them.

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