Keep It Moving by Twyla Tharp EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Status: Available for Free Download
- Authors: Twyla Tharp
- Publish Date: October 29, 2019
- Language: English
- Genre: Creativity, Personal Transformation, Aging
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 2 MB
- Pages: 192
- Price: Free
- ISBN: 198210130X
Take Up Space
Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called The Creative Habit,
sharing the message that we can all live creative lives if only we
could stop waiting for a muse to arrive with divine inspiration and
instead just get down to work. In other words, you too can be
more creative if you are willing to sweat a little. This message still
resonates when I lecture. But, interestingly, the question I am
most often asked after a talk these days is on a dierent topic
entirely: “How do you keep working?” The subtext here, sotto voce,
is “… at your age?” Which is seventy-eight.
To me it is simple. I continue to work as I always have,
expecting each day to build on the one before. And I do not see
why I should not continue to work in this spirit.
Keep It Moving is intended to encourage those who wish to
maintain their prime a very long time. Like most books of
practical advice, it identies a “disease” and oers a cure. That
disease, simply put, is our fear of time passing and the resulting
aging process. The remedy? The book in your hands.
I irted with the idea of calling this book The Youth Habit. I
liked the suggestion that youth’s virtues could be easily
transplanted into our post-youth years if only we followed a
routine: take the stairs, use sunscreen, ingest more omega-3s and
fewer omega-6s, don’t shortchange yourself on sleep. Cut out
sugar, do something nice for someone else daily, oss, read more,
watch less, love the one you’re with, and it’s okay to drink wine
(until the next study says it isn’t). Sounded like a bestseller to me.
But if experience has taught me anything, it’s that chasing
youth is a losing proposition. There’s little benet in looking back,
at least not with yearning or nostalgia or any other melancholy
humor. To look back is to cling to something well over and behind
you. We don’t lose youth. Youth stays put. We move on. We need
to face the fact that aging will happen to us along with everybody
else and just get on with it. Growing older is a strange stew of
hope, despair, courage—still I think you will agree—it is lightyears ahead of the alternative.
I don’t promise eternal youth in Keep It Moving. I have no
interest in sugarcoating the aging process. What I believe in is
change and the vitality it brings.
Vitality means moving through
life with energy and vigor, making deliberate choices and putting
to good use the time and energy that we have been granted. You
have, no doubt, seen people in their late seventies or even into their
nineties who don’t seem worn out by their years but instead
welcome the opportunity to be truly present in their bodies and in
their minds. Instead of stubbornly staying on known paths, afraid
to stray, they look at what comes next with curiosity, expanding
into whatever it may be.
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