“The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.” ― Twyla Tharp

So far, I've enjoyed reading The Creative Habit. I think it gives a great insight to the creative world to people who may not necessarily be apart of it, or people who don't see themselves as a part of it. It's a good book to read to expand your knowledge and see things in a different light and actually appreciate the creative people and creative thinkers out there who don't get much credit, especially in school. It's terrible to say, but creativity isn't held as high as it should be. It's made me look into my own habits of what I do with my music and made me think a little bit deeper about what I do and maybe should start doing. I've never been the type of person to not be creative, it's just who I am, and part of the reason I've always been so involved in music. But this book also explains that being creative doesn't have to do with just arts. You can be creative in almost any job area in the world, you just have to incorporate your creativity into it. When you're a teacher, you have a different teaching and learning style than that of your colleagues and your students. Therefore, you need to create a way for every student to be able to learn in their own personal way. That goes for a lot f job fields. This book is definitely a good way to get people thinking in a different way and to get the world to realize that being creative is important, and not just in art, dance or music. It's important in so many ways. Society seems to forget about the arts though. They think that learning to play an instrument or learning to draw or dance is not as important as finding what X equals. And honestly, how important is finding X? Where is that going to get me as a musician and music teacher? My student will never need to find X. So why must that be drilled into our heads when it's not necessarily important? I think it's important to be well rounded, and know how to play an instrument, or to be able to draw, or dance as well as being great in science or math or being a teacher. I think this book shows how important creativity is very well. Creativity is not dead.