Thursday, November 13, 2008

Twyla Tharp on Creativity vs. Recognition

I saw this on LifeHacker and thought the Twyla's message was definitely worth thinking about for songwriters..

Choreographer (and author of The Creative Habit) Twyla Tharp briefly discusses the roles of failure and money in creativity in a short video interview below. There are several good tidbits here, but in the instant-publishing internet age where everyone seems to be competing for the most YouTube views or highest web site traffic, I especially love the bits about how being creative for the sake of admiration and recognition is different than being creative simply because you want to make something. Here's the three-minute, 22-second clip.



How do you get your creativity on without getting obsessed with whether or not it's made you a superstar? Let us know in the comments.

[via Kung Fu Grippe]

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