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and from the SAVAGE BOOKSHELF...
CREATIVE QUEST
by AHMIR "QUESTLOVE" THOMPSON
288 pages
Published by Ecco
Released April 24, 2018
Honestly, is there anything this man cannot do?
Ahmir Thompson, most famously known as Questlove, the man of the mighty Afro complete with his trademark pick, who is the drummer/bandleader/co-founder of The Roots in addition to also being a revered DJ, music producer, internet radio host, music history Professor, designer, culinary entrepreneur, musical director of "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon" as well as a best selling author (phew!!) is clearly no stranger to the fountain of creativity.
So, it should be of no surprise that he would have concocted of his fourth book entitled, "Creative Quest," a manual of sorts to help any and everyone discover, nurture, and maintain their own individualistic levels of inspiration and creativity. If there is anything about this endeavor to be surprised about is not simply how compulsively readable this book happens to be but how deeply accessible, especially as the subject matter can easily fly into the arcane and esoteric.
Yet, Questlove, through his beautifully insightful and conversational prose has devised of a work that functions superbly as a multi-faceted experience that straddles the everyday and the philosophical regarding how we can discover our own tools of the trade regarding being creative, from being more receptive to periods of boredom, becoming more astute with the highlights and pitfalls of social media, navigating both failure and success, to understanding why we even try to create in the first place, among even more topics that I found to be deeply inspirational.
Ahmir Thompson, most famously known as Questlove, the man of the mighty Afro complete with his trademark pick, who is the drummer/bandleader/co-founder of The Roots in addition to also being a revered DJ, music producer, internet radio host, music history Professor, designer, culinary entrepreneur, musical director of "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon" as well as a best selling author (phew!!) is clearly no stranger to the fountain of creativity.
So, it should be of no surprise that he would have concocted of his fourth book entitled, "Creative Quest," a manual of sorts to help any and everyone discover, nurture, and maintain their own individualistic levels of inspiration and creativity. If there is anything about this endeavor to be surprised about is not simply how compulsively readable this book happens to be but how deeply accessible, especially as the subject matter can easily fly into the arcane and esoteric.
Yet, Questlove, through his beautifully insightful and conversational prose has devised of a work that functions superbly as a multi-faceted experience that straddles the everyday and the philosophical regarding how we can discover our own tools of the trade regarding being creative, from being more receptive to periods of boredom, becoming more astute with the highlights and pitfalls of social media, navigating both failure and success, to understanding why we even try to create in the first place, among even more topics that I found to be deeply inspirational.
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