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Summary of The War of Art by Steven Pressfield | Includes Analysis Preview: Steven Pressfield's The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles is a book dedicated to helping writers and other artists overcome creative barriers and produce valuable and satisfying work. Pressfield discusses his own artistic struggles and uses examples of artists throughout history in order to inspire and guide other creators. The biggest...
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Summary of How to Be Here by Rob Bell | Includes Analysis Preview: How to Be Here by Rob Bell is an inspirational self-help book on living an authentic life filled with meaning, purpose, and joy. The genesis of How to Be Here was a concussion that Bell, a pastor and motivational speaker, experienced while water-skiing. For a week after the accident, his head injury impaired his ability to access regrets of the past or worry about the future. Instead,...
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The commencement speech is the most popular public address of our time, shared every spring and remembered for years. Here, in an anthology of some of the finest of the genre, brilliant creative minds in every sector offer their wisdom: David Foster Wallace on living a compassionate life, Debbie Millman on the importance of taking risks, Michael Lewis on the responsibility that good fortune merits-and so many other greats. Some of this advice is grand...
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What does it mean to walk an unbound path?
To unbind from old expectations of who and how you should be in the world and go your own, unique way?
That's the question we asked the co-authors of this book and invited them to share their personal experiences of walking an unbound path.
The result is a collection of writings - prose, poetry, non-fiction and fiction - that captures a range of perspectives on what it looks like to live...
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Celebrate life's joyful moments with inspiration from Katie Jacobs of StylingMyEveryday.com! Create beautiful memories for your family and friends with help from Katie Jacobs, a stylist for Reese Witherspoon's lifestyle brand Draper James. In this essential guide to entertaining, Katie reveals her secrets for throwing fantastic parties for any occasion, from a casual backyard movie night to a lavish holiday party. Using Katie's inspiring ideas and...
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Personal reflections on the vital role of the notebook in creative writing, from Dorianne Laux, Sue Grafton, John Dufresne, Kyoko Mori, and more.
This collection of essays by established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops-places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum to develop...
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