The Artist's Way

Last week during a speech a participant asked me whether I was a fan of The Artist’s Way, a book written by Julia Cameron back in 1994.

The Artist’s Way is a step by step guide designed to help you discover your latent creativity and set you on the path to making your dreams a reality. The premise of the book is that by writing every morning for 20 minutes, it helps to unlock your creative spirit. Obviously there is a lot more to it than that, but that is the basic message. Although the book has now been around for two decades, it’s a very worthy read, and a lot of the people that I interview for the Mojo Radio Show refer back to The Artist’s Way.

This book has been the template for many a great creative and it’s a worthwhile process for overcoming creative blocks, insurmountable insecurities, self-esteem blocks and managing the negative voices that so often plague our minds.
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So my answer to the question was, yes I am a believer in Julia Cameron’s philosophy and I did enjoy her book very much when I read it some 15 years ago. Do I follow The Artist’s Way’s guide? No, not exactly as it stands. However, as with anything, you take the bits that resonate most with you and apply them to your own world, to improve yourself and unlock your great ideas, and this is what I’ve done.