The Power of Daily Practice
How Creative and Performing Artists (and Everyone Else) Can Finally Meet Their Goals
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Publisher Description
Learn the #1 Secret of the Most Successful Pros: Daily Practice
Eric Maisel knows from experience and observation that the single most crucial element of success for any endeavor is a regular, daily practice. Dr. Maisel, a preeminent creativity coach, therapist, and acclaimed author, shows how and why to implement a daily practice and addresses common challenges. His experience working with bestselling writers, entrepreneurs, musicians, actors, visual artists, recovering addicts, and rehabilitation patients shows as he outlines various ways to approach a daily practice and goes on to help you build a version of this important discipline that suits your life and goals. Real-world stories and practical examples will help you make measurable progress and build satisfaction in your most cherished pursuits.
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Maisel (Unleashing the Artist Within), a former psychotherapist, explores the benefits of understanding and creating a daily routine in this accessible guide. He begins with 20 brief chapters, each corresponding to an element he believes is crucial to maintaining a healthy daily practice initiation, honesty, repetition, playfulness, ceremony, and self-trust among them. In part two, he explains varieties of daily practices that the reader may want to establish relating to goals of creativity, recovery, health, activism, and "business-building." For instance, he proposes that aspiring artists establish a minimum 20-minute daily practice and, when feeling stuck, make a chart of things that inspire either love or hate. Maisel also shares anecdotes of those who have implemented practices successfully, such as one woman's business-building practice of taking a break from her day job each morning to briefly work on her personal business and remind herself there is "more time coming." Maisel interrupts the narrative repeatedly to direct readers to his website of personal philosophy, "kirism," and to take jabs at the pharmaceutical industry, which he believes aids a contemporary "epidemic of restlessness." While repetitive, this straightforward volume provides plenty of practical advice.
