In Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life, there’s a list of 33 questions designed to guide the creative person toward epiphanies about her life’s work. She calls it her “creative autobiography.” I went through the questions last night, simply on first instinct, without writing anything down, and I was […]
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Purpose, Simplified
Let’s kick off the PURPOSE-ful month of August by simply defining what it is, and figuring out how to find it. To my mind, finding purpose is the art of asking yourself personal “why” questions; purpose itself lies in the answers to those questions. For example: Purpose: Parenting Question: “Why do I want to be a parent?” The […]
Universal Question
My dad and I have a special game we play when we’re on a road trip. I highly recommend it to liven up your next car ride, dinner party, or awkward family holiday. It’s called “universal question.” It works like this. One person comes up with a hypothetical question, preferably something juicy, and the other […]