Coaching the Artist Within: Advice for Writers, Actors, Visual Artists, and Musicians from America's Foremost Creativity Coach

I suoi libri sono sempre una garanzia, ha il dono della chiarezza, ti fa guardare ai vari aspetti dell'essere creativi con esempi calzanti e chiarificatori. Nei suoi libri racconta anche aneddoti e propone esercizi che si rivelano "sbloccanti"Consigliatissimo.

Das Buch hat mir geholfen meine eigene Intuition zu entfalten und meine Fokus zu ändern. Mit meinen Arbeiten liebevoll umzugehen und die Kritik besser annehmen und mit mir als Künstlerin zufriedener sein.

Great book

Whether you're an artist or a creativity coach, this handbook is very useful. It nails all the usual challenges we meet when creating, and offers sensible tips to overcome them easily. Mr Maisel knows his stuff and knows how to speak to the creative minds. Keep this book close on your desk if you're writing a novel, or drawing your illustrated album. You'll use it often!

I stumbled upon this book in a store, started reading for two hours, and ended up replanning my entire morning. I decided to skip my afternoon plans, head to the gym, and keep reading until I was finished. I am not inclined to self-help books and am wary of pop psychology, but I also know what it's like to be a fulltime writer for whom success only occasionally equals calm happiness. I've always struggled to understand why I am most anxious just at the moments I should be celebrating. Maisel's thoughtful blend of psychology and philosophy are not just aimed at the person first imagining an artistic career, or the person who is "blocked" (though anyone with those problems may find this book very helpful, since Maisel is a kind but tough coach who insists his clients stop dancing around their problems).At every stage, writers and artists hit new levels of the same old problems, including self-criticism, negative self-chatter, difficulty articulating discontent and finding the vocabulary and tools for creating a meaningful life. As with all self-help books, the tone and content of this book will either hit you wrong -- and feel fairly obvious and encouraging, but otherwise nonessential -- or it will hit you the right way at precisely the right moment, helping you find the discipline and mental strength that might take you to the next step in your own artistic evolution.Finally, one of my favorite things about the personal asides and client anecdotes is that Maisel does not end on a saccharine upnote every time. He admits that some clients, some projects, some dreams will still fail-- at least in the conventional sense. Those stories are some of the best in the book.