The author of Eat, Pray, Love speaks at TED about creativity and the tortured artist. Contrary to everything I’ve heard before, she advocates a return to the ancient concept that creativity and genius are unexpected gifts from deity, and that we should embrace the moments when that divinity chooses us to manifest itself through, but in the meantime “keep showing up to work.” She may be on to something.
Projects and Progress
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Hallmark Project
Draft 1
28,077 of 100,000 percent (28%) complete
Reading List for 2024
I am reading
- It’s Our Ship: The No-Nonsense Guide to Leadership, by D. Michael Abrashoff
- Drumindor, by Michael J. Sullivan
I have completed:
- 1. The Sunlit Man, by Brandon Sanderson
- 2. Remember, Remember: Life-Changing Truths from the Book of Mormon, by Robert L. Millet
- 3. Heart of the Matter: What 100 Years of Living Have Taught Me, by Russell M. Nelson
- 4. Farilane, by Michael J. Sullivan
- 5. Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson
- 6. Spook Country, by William Gibson
- 7. Zero History, by William Gibson
- 8. John Adams, by David McCullough
- 9. Dune: Messiah, by Frank Herbert
- 10. The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
- 11. The Dark Forest, by Cixin Liu
- 12. Esrahaddon, by Michael J. Sullivan
- 13. Just Stab Me Now, by Jill Bearup
- 14. The Narrow Road Between Desires, by Patrick Rothfuss
- 15. Death’s End, by Cixin Liu
- 16. Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard, by Tom Felton
- 17. We Are Legion (We Are Bob), by Dennis E. Taylor
- 18. For We Are Many, by Dennis E. Taylor
- 19. Compassion: The Great Healer’s Art, by Ulisses Soares
- 20. All These Worlds, by Dennis E. Taylor
- 21. Nefertiti, by Michelle Moran
- 22. For Love of Country: Why I Left the Democratic Party, by Tulsi Gabbard
- 23. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, by Barbara W. Tuchman
- 24. Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury
I have abandoned:
- The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels, by India Holton
The ‘To read’ stack:
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