The Artist's Way for Retirement
The book I read for the 2021 NONFICTION READER CHALLENGE in the category Self-Help is The Artist’s Way for Retirement , by Julia Cameron, 2016 (subtitled It's Never Too Late to Discover Creativity and Meaning ). Although I don’t read – or need – self-help books, I needed to find one for this reading challenge. And this book seemed to offer some ideas that I could use. Cameron is an artist who has also written many books about creativity and the creative process. I had heard about her book, The Artist’s Way (written with Emma Lively), but have never read it. She explains that it “spelled out, in a step-by-step fashion, just what a person could do to recover–and exercise–their creativity.” Although I didn’t feel that my creativity needed to be “recovered,” it could certainly be “exercised” more vigorously. But before I looked into getting that book, I learned about this one and decided it was more appropriate for me since I was approaching retirement. In the introduction, Camero...