The Creative Habit by Tharp Twyla

Author:Tharp, Twyla [Tharp, Twyla]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Published: 2009-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

A Sense of Obligation.

I once spent six weeks rehearsing sixteen dancers on a bad piece of music called “The Hollywood Kiss” because I felt obligated to a composer who had done a favor for me. I had a company of dancers on full payroll, so I was obliged to keep them busy. I was obligated to the studio I had rented out and the staff I had hired. But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it’s certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn’t working. So, after six weeks of going nowhere with the meter running, I scuttled the project. Despite the most meticulous planning—or more likely because of it—I wasted six weeks of everyone’s time. In hindsight, I should have heeded the CEO who told me, “You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.”

Whatever your reasons for starting with a project—whether crass or noble—they have to be clear and unencumbered. Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

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