Toby's Twyla Tharp’s “Creative Autobiography"

 Twyla Tharp’s “Creative Autobiography”

This is a great reflection exercise that puts you in touch with your own creative experiences.

Please answer the following questions:

1. What is the first creative moment you remember?

when I finished my math homework

2. Was anyone there to witness or appreciate it?

Not really sure about it.

3. What is the best idea you've ever had?

Bought a video game called "Assassin's Creed Odyssey"

4. What made it great in your mind?

Because it's a pretty good game and brings me happiness

5. What is the dumbest idea?

Decide to get a C on the quiz, and get A+ on the test. (I did that in my primary school)

6. What made it stupid?

I think that the grades in the school are not jokes.

7. Can you connect the dots that led you to this idea?

I don't really think the dots could lead me to my idea.

8. What is your creative ambition?

My creative ambition is to create or invent something that's easy to design and useful to use. Which is kind of cool. (conversion plug)

9. What are the obstacles to this ambition?

Time and materials

10. What are the vital steps to achieving this ambition?

capacity to act

11. How do you begin your day?

Have a stretch on my bed when I'm awake.

12. What are your habits? What patterns do you repeat?

Maybe when I'm nervous, I might bite my fingernails. like I can't even recognize that I'm biting.

13. Describe your first successful creative act.

My first successful creative act is I created my own DIY shoe which is Nike air force 1.

14. Describe your second successful creative act.

My second successful creative act is I created a new kind of layup in basketball.

15. Compare them.

I mean the first one is only drawing on the shoe, but the second one is to really think about the whole action.

16. What are your attitudes toward: money, power, praise, rivals, work, play?

I think these are the things that society should have.

17. Which artists do you admire most?

It must be Juice Wrld (I think singer, rapper & songwriter does considered as a artists).

18. Why are they your role models?

He's not my role model, but he's one of my emotional support, his song helps everything in my life.

19. What do you and your role models have in common?

We all had secret passion for emo and rock music.

20. Does anyone in your life regularly inspire you?

Yes, most of my friend's suggestions could usually inspire me.

21. Who is your muse?

 Juice Wrld and XXXtenaction. Their songs always inspired me.

22. Define muse.

A soures of inspiration

23. When confronted with superior intelligence or talent, how do you respond?

I don't really care because since I was born, I know that I not a superior intelligence or talent person. I'll just try my best to do everything.

24. When faced with stupidity, hostility, intransigence, laziness, or indifference in others, how do

you respond?

I won't even try to respond him/her.

25. When faced with impending success or threat of failure, how do you respond?

Try to keep calm. 

26. When you work, do you love the process or the result?

both of them, no good process no good result. 

27. At what moments do you feel your reach exceeds your grasp?

Last week, when I finished all the homework on Monday, then the other subjects added more homework.

28. What is your ideal creative activity?

I can't imagine that yet.

29. What is your greatest fear?

Lost something that's really important to me

30. What is the likelihood of either of the answers to the previous two questions happening?

100%. I've already lost something which is really important.

31. Which of your answers would you most like to change?

I would most like to change the answer in question 30.

32. What is your idea of mastery?

Mastery means that you are skilled or better than most people.

33. What is your greatest dream?

To do everything that I want without any worries

From The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life