My eight grade English teacher
taught me a good lesson about reading books in school. Every book you read is a
good book. No teacher will ever assign a
bad book to read, that does not make sense. The Creative Habit is not a book
for me. Nevertheless, I have to appreciate the ideas and logic that she brings.
One of
the best parts of the book to me was her assessment of getting started. It seems
like that is the part of the book to be skimmed over, but she goes quite in
depth. She writes the book less in a way of a self-help book, and more as an
assessment of the many different ways people get started on a difficult task. My
favorite of these is the scratching the surface chapter. It is a way that I like
to use, whether I realize it or not. For the video project, I started the
project by just playing around with Movie Maker, it did not mean that I was
actually working on the project, but the wheels were turning and seeing I hated
the last project, it was a step in the right direction.
The book
was just not my favorite to read. I am not a fan of the childish style of
presenting the information. I think of the letters on the first page as a first
impression at a job interview, if I am dressed well, organized and
professional, then people will take what I have to say seriously. The book did
not do that for me. I understand that she was a famous dancer and is now a
famous choreographer, but I wish she had branched out and spoken about other
topics. By only speaking from her own experience, she may have seemed knowledgeable,
she also isolated many readers who did not have any relationship to dancing.
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