We want to understand the status quo and what it's trying to preserve because we don't need to burn it down to change it. That was our mistake in some of the other approaches that have been taken in the past. Revolution doesn't necessarily yield a better program. We have to honor the status quo and what it's trying to protect. But then we also have to make our own courageous efforts at stating our truth, saying what we need to say and, in a sense, begin to slowly turn the wheel.
Small changes make big differences over time.
An integral part of The Artist's Way at Work is the requirement that students write three pages of rather open-ended musings every morning. Well, as it's explained in the book, it's three pages of longhand writing done as quickly as you can. The main thing is to forget about the word composing . Because that's the kind of prejudgement we bring to writing. That it has to be writing and that we're going to compose and edit it.