BIG MAGIC

今年はもっと本をたくさん読もう！と決めて探し出すと読みたい本がたくさん出てきました。1冊目はこちら。日本でもジュリア・ロバーツ主演で人気になった映画「食べて、祈って、恋をして」の著者、エリザベス・ギルバートさんが書いたクリエイティブな行き方を目指す人への本です。

クリエイティブといっても、作曲したり絵を描いたりとアーチストを目指すというわけではなくて、毎日のルーチンの範囲を超える新しいことにチャレンジしたり、マニュアル的な作業の中にもより楽しく、速く、簡単にできる方法を考えてみたりといったこと。普通の会社員にだって活かせることです。

失敗や限界を恐れずに、夢に向かってチャレンジしようという勇気をくれる本。やってみたいけど、できるかな？と迷っていることに、飛び込んでみるよう背中を押してくれるような本です。

心に響いた言葉たちをメモ。

"Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?"

“Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.” 

 "Argue for the limitation and you get to keep them." 

 "Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” 

 "So many of us believe in perfection which ruins everything else, because the perfection is not only the energy of the good, it’s also the enemy of the realistic, the possible and the fun." “perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat,”

 “You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.” 

“what ever you do, try not to dwell too long on your failures. You don’t need to conduct autopisies on your disasters. You don’t need to know what anything means. Remember: the gods of creativity are not obliged to explain anything to us. Own your disappointment, acknowledge it for what it is, and move on. Chop up the failure and use it for bait to try to catch another project. Someday it might all make sense to you—why you needed to go through this botched up mess in order to land in a better place. Or maybe it will never make sense. So be it. Move on anyhow."