Today Greg Dickson asked me to comment on Michael Zeitgeist's question; what is success. Here's my answer as best I can articulate it.

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Welcome to today's Sunday Letters. Effects Of Stress On Creativity
In recent episodes of The Daily Larb Podcast, I’ve been speaking a lot about the importance of creating for the sake of it, for the benefit of one’s self as a priority.

Harry Hoban reminded me of this on a recent episode of The Irish Songwriter’s Podcast hosted by my friend Ray Heffernan.

Harry said that he writes for himself first and has no thought for the listener.

Some of us believe in our naivety, that this approach is damaging to our success. But as The Artist’s Manifesto says, this selfish approach is vital if we are to make something worthwhile.

Worthwhile not only to ourselves but to others too, because when we make something from that pure place, others want to be a part of it – eventually.

True success can’t be based on the feedback from others.

Investing in that applause will invariably take us away from the place we are meant to be.

That outside focus on other people and their response to the stuff w

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In today's episode of The Daily Larb, I'm talking a little more about the importance of disconnecting from the need to bring about a particular result in the creative process. Some believe that to create something worthwhile we've got to grind it out, to "make" it happen, as if being the boss of it is going to bring about worldly success and admiration. In fact, the opposite seems to be true. At least that has been my experience of how this creative thing works. Sure, determination, or rather resilience, is required in any creative endeavour, but to feel the need to force a thing to be a particular way will actually have the reverse effect.

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Today is St. Patrick's Day, Lá le Phádraig as Gaeilge, and although the day of celebration has little religious relevance these days anywhere in the world, it has become a good excuse for a celebration. Not least because we are a small nation and it allows us to take the world stage for a while. My family and I went to the City today to see the parade. It was very cold but we enjoyed it nonetheless. I felt for the participants though, some very very obviously feeling the cold.

Anyway, on today's show, I wanted to talk a little bit about success. I was listening to Ray Hefferenan's Irish Songwriter's Podcast on iTunes. In particular an episode with singer-songwriter Harry Hoban. Harry had a view on success and I thought I'd share it. He claimed he didn't write for the listener, he instead wrote for himself.

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Today I'm talking God & Religion. Does God Exist? In the Judeo-Christian sense I would suggest not. That idea had too many negative connotations attached to it. God is not the big boss man pushing things around, making laws, deciding who's good and bad. That idea is dead, or at least should be. larrygmaguire.com my friend Ray Heffernan inspired this episode with his Stephen Hawking quote this morning

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In this bonus episode of the daily Larb I'm talking about audience building. How to build an Audience, Larry G Maguire, writer and artist at larrygmaguire.com

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This morning I'm reading from the introduction to Abraham Maslow's book, Toward A Psychology of Being. In this excerpt he addresses his critics claims that through his theory of human motivation that he promotes selfishness, a focus on self to the detriment of the whole. He refutes this. I add my own commentary to the subject.

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I decided last night that I will give away FREE, The Artist's Manifesto full version in Mobi, ePub and PDF. Here's why.

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Want to find out more about how you can support the launch of The Artist's Manifesto, visit; https://larrygmaguire.com/join-the-launch-team

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https://larrygmaguire.com/join-the-launch-team/ Today on Sunday Letters I'm sharing how you can get involved in the launch of The Artist's Manifesto. Everyone who joins the launch team will receive a free copy of The Artist's Manifesto in Mobi, ePub and PDF + Audiobook + special thanks in the acknowledgement page of the paperback.

There is an initial three day period where The Artist's Manifesto will be available FREE on Amazon and it is crucial that we take advantage of this period so that as many artist's and creative people are exposed to the book. By joining the launch team you can help me reach those people. Find out more and get involved here; https://larrygmaguire.com/join-the-launch-team/

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