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Twyla Tharp secretly wants to play feedback guitar.

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Ok, I am just kidding.  But should the world's most famous dance choreographer ever want to play guitar, I wonder if she would be drawn to play noise.  Noise, as it is, is difficult to allow oneself to do only before a person really lets go of self-criticism.  Doing that is easier, I believe, when one let's go of distractions (or perhaps pillars as Hugh Macleod would put it).  Pillars and distractions are about the same things: they are the objects or habits that keep us from engaging our creativity.

As Twyla Tharp lovingly puts it in her wonderful book, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life:

I want to place myself in a bubble of monomaniacal absorbtion where I'm fully invested in the task at hand.  ...I list the biggest distractions in my life and make a pact with myself to do without them for a week.

Great advice.  For me?  Say goodbye to email on the weekends.   Want to get a hold of me to hang out?  You better call me. No more books for awhile too.  Also, no more blogging twice a day...

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