The Creative Habit

Twyla Tharp did not grab my interests in her first chapter of her book.  She talks about her interests that are completely different than mine.  She creates dances for ballet recitals and although she has created some famous performances, it is not what I am into.  I was glad near the end of that first chapter when she said the entire book would not be about ballets.  That was a positive for me, and it kept me still reading.  The second chapter she talks about rituals and how they keep us going on in life.  Twyla has a ritual that she gets up incredibly early like 5:30 or maybe even five, and she catches a taxi to the gym where she has gone for the last 14 years with the same personal trainer.  I can relate to the rituals talk with that I have maybe one ritual that I can think of and that is taking a shower.  Taking a shower right when I get up in the morning wakes me up and I am ready to start the day.  In the last chapter she talks about creative DNA and how it is our personality.  Overall the book is okay and I will continue to read.  Even though it is my homework to read.   Twyla does repeat her points a little too much, or she has too many examples which may turn a reader off.  I did skip over some pages because they repeated too much of the same things.