I didn’t do every exercise, but I did mull them over and I can see how beneficial each would be to enhance a person’s creativity. At the end of each chapter is a group of exercises, printed on gray paper. It uses different colored inks and different sizes of type to keep the eye and the mind from getting lulled into inattention (at least, it did for me). She believes in rituals, and has processes by which she frees up her brain to come up with new things. In The Creative Habit (subtitled Learn it and Use it for Life), she offers tools that will help the creative artist keep coming up with fresh ideas. If you don’t know her, take a peek at this short interview with her from a couple of years ago, in which she discusses a newer book she’s written on the importance of movement: Tharp is one of America’s best loved choreographers, with a long and illustrious career. Now that I’ve read it, I can confirm that it is. I have seen this book more than once on lists of best books about creativity.
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