"Learn it and Use it for Life"

At first I wasn’t sure what reading The Creative Habit, by Twyla Tharp was going to be like because we definitely have had a different variety of reading assignments. After the first couple pages I realized that I was going to enjoy this book. I think one of the main reasons that I enjoyed this book is because it’s a free writing book, unlike Thriving in College and Mindset. This was Twyla telling her story, and her personal life goals and habits. I also really like the way that she wrote the book, the font was a reasonable size but she did something that other authors haven’t really ever done before. She would write the important words, in bold, usually bigger than the rest of the words on the page, and some in a different color as well. I found chapter two to be really interesting, it was about rituals of preparation. I think this chapter can apply to everyone because we all have our weird rituals when we wake up, and before we go to bed. On page 15, Twyla says, “We all have rituals in our day, whether we’re aware of them or not.” That is completely true because every morning I wake up, take my thyroid pill, eat breakfast, get dressed, do my hair and makeup, brush my teeth and then I’m on my way. Whether or not that’s the order you do that in, we all doing our morning rituals the same everyday which then forms muscle memory, meaning you don’t even have to think about it anymore, you just do it. I also like that throughout the book, there are exercises that you can do to really further your thinking about what she’s trying to prove and show you. That’s also something that many free writing books, don’t include. I think that really makes this book unique.