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- Have you ever wondered why the secret to long-term creative success isn't about reaching a destination, but about mastering your daily routine?
- What if you could create a "bliss station" that shields your best ideas from the constant distractions of the modern world?
- Are you curious about the simple, everyday habits that can help you stay inspired even when you feel like you’ve hit a total dead end?
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Key Takeaways from Keep Going
- Understand why feelings of apathy are actually essential wake-up calls, and learn to embrace the invisible inner work necessary to fuel your future achievements.
- Discover how to navigate life's chaos by establishing grounding daily rituals and utilizing unique to-do lists, like a 'paper prayer,' to stay focused on the present.
- Master the art of overcoming perfectionism by treating your work like a game, deliberately doing tasks poorly at first to lower the bar and bypass procrastination.
- Learn why you shouldn't monetize every talent you possess, and discover how protecting your hobbies from commercial pressure keeps them as a vital source of joyful energy.
- Find out how to cure creative burnout and reconnect with your passion by shifting your focus away from expectations and simply making your work as a gift for someone else.
Keep Going — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Set a routine so you consistently show up for your work, no matter how creative you feel today.
Chapter 3: Shut out interruptions to grant yourself the time and space to pursue your creative work.
Chapter 4: To bolster your creativity, harness the power of lists, tidying, and regular sleep.
Chapter 5: To safeguard your creativity, avoid fully monetizing it or becoming overly obsessed with popularity.
Chapter 6: Focus less on being a creative identity and more on doing creative work, and release the notion that you must “arrive.”
Chapter 7: To rekindle your creativity, reconnect with a spirit of play.
Chapter 8: You don’t need an extraordinary life to make extraordinary creative work.
Chapter 9: If your creative work makes you or those around you miserable, it may be time to step back.
Keep Going Summary & Overview
Full of practical tips, techniques and strategies for fostering creativity, Keep Going (2019) provides readers with a wide variety of ways to persevere in the face of difficulties with their creative work. While the text is written primarily with professional and non-professional artists in mind, the ideas are applicable to anyone whose job or pastime requires creativity.
Who Should Listen to Keep Going?
- Artists looking for inspiration
- Creative professionals and hobbyists feeling stuck in a rut
- Teachers, entrepreneurs, activists and anyone else whose work could use a boost of creativity
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