Trickster Move

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 This is a captivating idea from Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic.  She gives a powerful example through Brenee Brown.  But I just put the cart before the horse did I not?

Let me do a bit of unpacking.  

Elizabeth offers us two camps when it comes to creativity - Martyrs versus tricksters.  Martyrs are heavily into suffering to produce results.  Tricksters, on the other hand put in a bit of impish playfulness into the work they do.  More importantly, they keep discovering novel way of handling projects.

Coming from the demanding academic work culture, Brene has often found herself in the martyr’s camp.  Toiling until the work was done was the way,, period.

When she got “in tune” with the Trickster way, she hit on a novel way of finishing a book.  She enlisted the help of two of her friends.  She took them to her beach house in Galveston and tasked them to take notes while she narrates stories.

This Trickster Move allowed her to leverage her strengths to complete her work.  I am sure the writing journey was more enjoyable too.

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