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what: Undercurrents Anthology
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who: Cape Breton Island writers
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a PCQ-QCP: Learn a New Skill
March 16, 2007 |
[-practices, tips-]
a Quick Creative Practice
~simple practices have profound impacts~
Need Inspiration? Learn something new
Choose either a fairly simple skill - for example, how to do stencilling or beginning knitting - or - choose a skill that will take time and effort and one that you have, therefore, been putting off your whole life - like playing an instrument or learning a language. Either way, you’ll reap unforeseen benefits far beyond what you’re learning.
Question: “Do you know how old I’ll be by the time I learn to play the piano?”
Answer: “The same age you’ll be if you don’t learn to play the piano.”
Start now. Your efforts will be rewarded.
Learning something new inspires because:
- * it ignites the mind, firing up sluggish brain cells
- * new skill sets have bearing on what we already know in ways we can’t predict - for example, working with sumptuous wool yarn might provide a new connection to painting or composing
- * it reminds us that we are creative beings capable of continual evolution.
Originally published in the July 2005 issue of The Practically Creative Quarterly, theme: space and spaces
also posted in: Creative un-Blockers , PCQ-QCP - quick tips , Self-evolution , Inspiration , Motivation , Practice & Practices , The Original PCQ, 05-06 , Craft
tags: benefits, brain, creative, impact, inspiration, inspire, learn, learning, life, mind, minds, new, practical, practice, practices, profound, quick, skill, way, work
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Results of our previous poll
What is your biggest creativity problem?too many projects at once can't get in the groove not enough time everything else takes priority self-doubts
other ['not enough talent']27% 20% 20% 15% 15%
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