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SARK on Being an Artist and Dealing with Our Inner Critic

By Douglas Eby — 2018

As part of the 2018 Transformational Author Experience, host Christine Kloser provided a free Playbook with contributions by multiple authors including Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy, better known as SARK.

Read on thecreativemind.net

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Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.

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George Leonard
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Learning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .

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George Leonard
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What we call ‘mastery’ can be defined as that mysterious process through which what is at first difficult or even impossible becomes easy and pleasurable through diligent, patient, long-term practice.

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George Leonard
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Indecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair.

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George Leonard
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Ultimately, nothing in this life is ‘commonplace,’ nothing is ‘in between.’ The threads that join your every act, your every thought, are infinite. All paths of mastery eventually merge. [Each person has a] vantage point that offers a truth of its own.

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George Leonard
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Resolve to do the things you find to be difficult. That’s what confident people do. They tackle those things that are scary and they get addicted to doing it.

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Chalene Johnson
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The Superhuman World of Wim Hof: The Iceman

Wim Hof first caught the attention of scientists when he proved he was able to use meditation to stay submerged in ice for 1 hour and 53 minutes without his core body temperature changing.

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Wim Hof
2015
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A Powerful Way to Unleash Your Natural Creativity | Tim Harford

What can we learn from the world's most enduringly creative people? They "slow-motion multitask," actively juggling multiple projects and moving between topics as the mood strikes - without feeling hurried.

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2019
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Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

It is the rise from falling that Brown takes as her subject in Rising Strong.

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Brené Brown
2025
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Tam Talk: Yung Pueblo

Mega-viral poet and activist Yung Pueblo gives an inspiring “Tam Talk.”

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Yung Pueblo
2019
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