Posted on Monday, 2nd March 2009 by Bill Bean
Recently, I’ve been attempting to reengage with books. People who know me know I love books. But I have been in a reading slump for sometime.
Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit is a book I’m trying to read a little every day. After two chapters i can already say I’m glad I picked it up. Not heavy, not fluffy, it’s just right. I appreciate the format style as well. Reads like a blog as opposed to a text book.
Chapter 2 is about the importance of rituals. She calls them “automatic, decisive patterns of behavior.” As Tharp says, first steps are hard. Rituals make the first steps automatic so I can get moving. They help bring focus and keep us from getting stuck at, “I don’t feel like it,” or “Why am I doing this?”
Merlin Mann at 43 Folders
Posted in Personal | Comments (1)
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:06 am
Sounds like a good book to break you back in. It’s always funny when people around Norwood here connect me with you. They’ll say something like… “Oh yeah, Bill…the book guy!”