Creative Quest by QuestloveMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I don't honestly know if I have heard any of Questlove's music, however I have seen positive things about this book to the extent that I felt compelled to read it. It is an excellent, approachable, and insightful consideration of creativity of value to all: not just any form of artist, but any one. F. Scott Fitzgerald said:
"...let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.”
This approach is a theme in Questlove's approach. Exercises include re-writing a review of your work to say the opposite, believe the opposite of one of your beliefs, etc. This makes me think of The Marshmallow Test. He also has interesting insights into how the Internet Age is making us focus on detail and lose the big picture, etc.
As a general music fan, I appreciate his regard for Clyde Stubblefield, Stevie Wonder, etc.
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