Little Things To Inspire You This Week: The Roundup

The Roundup #23: Thoughts on perfectionism, fear, jealousy, and like always, tons of great recommendations.

This week the New York Times published an article about The Artist’s Way called “I used to cringe at self-help books. Until this one changed my life.”

Julia Cameron might call it synchronistic that this wildly popular book from 1992 is still getting written about in the Times, and right as we are in the middle of it. Something I love from the article is the declaration that The Artist’s Way is not perfect; in fact, it’s quite flawed. I agree with this. Some of her examples are extremely dated. The task of keeping track of your spending as an exercise to build abundance sounds ridiculous to people who already do that just to make rent. The way she speaks about God turns a lot of people off. But, with all that, it’s sold over 5 million copies, and helped countless creatives from me, and maybe you, to Elizabeth Gilbert and Martin Scorsese.

In all its imperfection, The Artist’s Way shows us that something need not be perfect to still be good, and helpful, and to do what it intended to do.…