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Mar 1, 2023Liked by Annie Murphy Paul

Part 3 is the hardest part for me. I'm working on an essay on this very topic and I find myself procrastinating when i think of finishing it. Every piece feels like that. 😭

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It is hard to put our work out there, Natasha. It means subjecting ourselves to evaluation and judgment. The psychologist Adam Grant wrote a great article about approaching procrastination as a matter of emotion management: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/smarter-living/tips-to-stop-procrastinating.html

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Mar 1, 2023Liked by Annie Murphy Paul

I love this insight and this reminder. We have to do the work and put it out there to know what it is we’ve made.

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Thank you, KJ! I have found that to be true over and over—we don't know what we've made until we've put it out there.

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“People who have read my books have come back to me with related insights and ideas that never occurred to me as I was writing.”

I would be interested in these.

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Oh gosh--well, I have loved hearing from teachers and artists, two communities who immediately "got" what I was trying to do with The Extended Mind. On their own they had worked out many ways of thinking with their bodies, thinking with spaces, and thinking with relationships. Other readers have pointed out that there is Buddhist flavor to The Extended Mind, which I had not realized but was really glad to hear.

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Annie this newsletter is gold and I hope it's the subject of your next book!

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Thank you so much, Jennifer! This newsletter is indeed my way of feeling around the subject of my next book.

BTW, anyone interested in creativity should know that Jennifer has a fantastic podcast called Creating Out Loud: https://jenniferlouden.com/create-out-loud/

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yay! I want this book now! I'm already using these suggestions with book coaching clients :)))

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I'm so glad to hear this, Jen! The research on creativity is so fascinating.

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also just gave two of your articles to students at my next retreat to read!

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It's failing. Failing much. Failing often. It's moving and adjusting. Steping forward. Sometimes back. A little to the left. A little to the otherside. Failing better. Failing more.

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