Twyla Tharp receives an honorary degree at the Harvard University in 2018. Other than the mirrors, the boom box and me, the room is empty. The room is lined with eight-foot-high mirrors. I'm wearing a sweatshirt, faded jeans, and Nike cross-trainers. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. Tharp summons her best work from a naked space. To launch the necessary process, hard work must be rooted in something, a kernel that can germinate beginning. But there's a process that generates creativity-and you can learn it. No one can give you subject matter, your creative content if they could, it would be their creation and not yours. The book speaks to anyone, Tharp quickly dismisses the question of talent being enough (or that genius cannot be taught): she notes "Nobody worked harder than Mozart." More than anything, this book is about preparation: In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative. Renowned ballet choreographer and dancer Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) gives us an energizing and stabilizing book, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use it for Life, to motivate the creative habit.
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