Comments on: Getting to Know Your Creative Demon, Part 2

By: Kay Yeoman

Kay Yeoman — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:08:10 +0000

I love this one! Very well said and I totally agree. It’s very fulfilling to get a balance between stress and enjoyment, between family and work. I think it’s very hard to achieve if you worry more about your life. It’s not bad to enjoy life, just balance it well.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:47:01 +0000

“What sorts of subjects have always fascinated you? What sorts of people, places, ideas, activities, and circumstances have you always been drawn to? … Conversely, what things have always had the opposite effect? What has sucked the life right out of you and/or filled you with a definite sense of resistance in the form of disgust or indignation or anger? ”

Nice article. After reading the article, I think I need to balance what I am doing with something I can make some money at, but also enjoy.

By: Matt Cardin

Matt Cardin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:18:25 +0000

Achieving that balance is the whole trick, isn’t it? Good point, Lily.

By: Lily Rose @ Best Brain Supplements

Lily Rose @ Best Brain Supplements — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:44:14 +0000

Just like in the Part 1, you make an excellent point. I struggle my whole creative life to find that balance between the daimon, which pushes “content” and the ideas into my mind, and the ratio that needs to give them comprehensible form and readable structure.

By: Matt Cardin

Matt Cardin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:06:42 +0000

THE WAR OF ART is purely and simply wonderful, isn’t it? My point here at Demon Muse is to explore the vast benefits of relating to creativity as an external/independent force by personifying it as an inner collaborator. Pressfield’s point in THE WAR OF ART is to explore the vast benefits of personifying creativity’s opposite, which he terms “resistance,” in precisely complementary fashion. And of course, as you know, he also has some pointed and penetrating things to say about the muse, daimon, and genius as well. Simply an awesome book. If you haven’t heard, he just released a sequel of sorts titled DO THE WORK, which invokes some themes from THE WAR OF ART to offer a hands-on guidebook to accomplishing any creative work by anticipating, recognizing, and dealing effectively with the various manifestations that resistance will take at entirely predictable points in the process.

By: Joesph

Joesph — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:12:54 +0000

I just read a very insightful book on the demons of creativity called “The War of Art”. The biggest demons most creative people face are procrastination and perfectionism.

By: Matt Cardin

Matt Cardin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:48:24 +0000

I’m glad the article spoke to you at the right time, Jeannie. I love it when those serendipities happen, and I wish you the best of fortune with your website. Please feel free to update me and the Demon Muse audience on how it goes, if you feel led to.

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:53:11 +0000

“look to your involuntary loves and hatreds. And be sure to consider your entire life history as you do so…. you should look for any talents that manifested as a burning desire to do a particular something-or-other long before you were actually able to do it.”

Very interesting article. There are a few things I have put off for years, that still bug me that I want to do, no matter how much I ignore them.

Sort of like a spring that just keeps bubling up. One of them I am going to start a website about this year.

I put it off partly because of naysayers in my family that think it is silly. I made a decision a couple weeks to ago to pursue it and your article solidified some things for me.