Why being multi-passionate is your strength, with Sarah Firth
"What theories about myself and my creativity am I willing to test? Am I willing to fail?"
Sarah Firth is an awesome cartoonist and graphic recorder, among many other things.
Sarah takes a bit of a mad scientist approach to her creative life. She embraces experimentation and testing to try to discover new ways to organize her life around her creative interests, always looking to answer the question: "How much value can I bring to something? And then also how much time can I buy back?"
This openness to experimentation has helped Sarah build a more anti-fragile, flexible, stable, sustainable—and enjoyable!—creative life.
Sarah has followed her curiosity to make life-changing pivots in the face of adversity, including the surprisingly positive aftermath of a traumatic car accident that derailed her post-college professional plans, and learning to use her neurodivergence as a filter, and even a sort of superpower.
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More about Sarah Firth
Sarah Firth is one of the foremost practitioners of the art of graphic recording, and that's not all (or even most): she's also an Eisner Award-winning nonfiction cartoonist who takes on many of the most important issues of the day, including climate change, Covid, #metoo, and art-making with a disability. Her work has been published by ABRAMS Books, ABC Arts, Frankie Magazine, kuš!, Graphic Mundi, Penn State University Press, Penguin Random House, Picador, Allen & Unwin, The Nib, Black Inc, and Routledge. She's currently working on her first full-length book of visual essays, supported by a Creators Fund program grant.
Connect with Sarah Firth
https://www.facebook.com/SarahTheFirthCreativeServices/
https://twitter.com/sarahthefirth
https://www.instagram.com/sarahthefirth/
http://www.sarahthefirth.com/
Additional Links
http://www.sarahthefirth.com/shopsarahthefirth/graphic-recording-quick-skills-a-free-mini-course
https://assemblepapers.com.au/2021/02/03/unexpectedly-thriving/
http://www.sarahthefirth.com/shopsarahthefirth/untangle-your-brain-and-think-on-the-page
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