Table of contents:
- What do we know about the artist?
- What do Yana Frank and David Allen have in common?
- The torment of creativity
- Who is this book for?
- Outcomes
2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
Are you a creative person? Artist and writer Jana Frank shows how to customize time management so that it doesn't harm creativity.
I am a creative person. Time management doesn't suit me!
Let's leave it to the managers. I understand them perfectly. It's easy to stuff a business meeting or send a quote into a planner. But how do you plan an impulse of the soul, a sudden inspiration or night gatherings with other artists, during which so many brilliant ideas were born ?!
Artist and writer Jana Frank shows how to customize time management so that it doesn't harm creativity.
What do we know about the artist?
Lives alone. Works at night. Eats "Doshirak". Clumsy, disorganized, disheveled. Always hovering in the clouds. He doesn't care about ordinary life. He is waiting for the muse.
Well, am I right? Is this a picture in your head?
Yana says that not only ordinary people think so. The artists themselves see themselves in exactly the same way. Majority.
But not all. Yana also met organized artists. Colleagues often laugh at them, but after years it is they who achieve success. Their work is valued higher than the work of "true" creators. I cannot be trusted - she has been rotating in these circles since her student days.
This prompted her to this conclusion:
After thinking about everything, I came to the conclusion that chaos does not contain anything convenient and inspiring and has nothing to do with freedom. Yana Frank
What do Yana Frank and David Allen have in common?
David Allen's GTD is the most popular time management system in the world.
Many, however, turn up their nose from her. Why? Answer: The system is too focused on doing little things. I do not want to redo everything, everything. I don't want to be a robot!
Well, or something like that.
In fact, experienced GTD users know that the main slogan of the GTD system is: bring all the routine into the system in order to RELEASE THE HEAD for great thoughts.
Isn't that what all creative people want?
An uncleaned room, a crowded mailbox, unwritten ideas - all this pulls the artist down, returning him to the mortal earth. Prevents the artist's brain from truly creating. This routine constantly reminds of itself, even if subconsciously. After all, the problems are hanging, they are not solved. And the more the artist brushes them off, the more these cases make themselves felt. Non-urgent and small "mosquitoes" turn into "pterodactyls", which strive to chop off the whole head.
Yana offers to shove all this routine into the scheduler. In her case, a large lined notebook. She believes that routine tasks need to be done regularly to make them a habit. In order not to feel emotions when performing them, not to waste precious energy.
The torment of creativity
Okay, creativity is cleared of routine. Can I create?
Yeah, but not everything is smooth here either. How do you deal with distractions? How to deal with a creative crisis?
Yana also discusses these and many other problems of creators in the book.
Who is this book for?
This is not a system like GTD. It is, rather, a manifesto. On the organization of creativity.
And this is written for people who do not believe that clear planning and creativity are compatible. These people at one time read several popular books on time management. We saw all these examples from the life of white collars. And they got scared. And put an end to time management.
It is these people that Yana convinces to change their minds.
In the end, she sets her heroic example. Yana survived a terrible illness (cancer). And she not only survived, but continues to create with amazing productivity:
- More than 100 paintings and 1,000 illustrations.
- 8 books.
- Yana is one of the most popular Runet bloggers with tens of thousands of subscribers.
- And with all this, she raised her son.
Thus, it is also a motivational book. If Yana was able, then you can too.
And it also seemed to me that the book was written for women)) It is not for nothing that Ozone has an overwhelming number of reviews from them.
Outcomes
Grade:7/10.
Read:writers, artists, musicians.
Yes, the routine gets in the way of the creators. But instead of running away from it, try to organize it and do it regularly.
Free your head for creativity!
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