Derrick Trimble's Blog
July 19, 2020
Toward Trust of Self
Reading Carl R. Rogers book 'On Becoming a Person' was like going for a walk with a kindred spirit, sharing ideas, and solving the world's problems. I find that I echo so many of his perspectives that any person looking in may think I am a student of Rogers. In fact, On Becoming a Person is the first of anything I have read by him.
While there are so many quotables I can mention, I must post the following section for the benefit of any creative that seeks an understanding of what makes himself or herself tick.
As a creative, you must ultimately be yourself and create from that place of a unique perspective.
Derrick Trimble
Toward Trust of Self
Still another way of describing this pattern which I see in each client is to say that increasingly he trusts and values the process which is himself. Watching my clients, I have come to a much better understanding of creative people.
El Greco, for example, must have realised as he looked at some of his early work, that “good artists do not paint like that.� But somehow he trusted his own experiencing of life, the process of himself, sufficiently that he could go on expressing his own unique perceptions. It was as though he could say, “good artists do not paint like this, but I paint like this.�
Where to move to another field, Ernest Hemingway was surely aware that “good writers do not write like this.� but Fortunately he moved toward being Hemingway, being himself. Rather Then drawing back because of his inadequate academic preparation in physics, he simply moved toward being Einstein, toward thinking his own thoughts, toward being as truly and deeply himself as he could.
This is not a phenomenon which occurs only in the artists or the genius. Time and again in my clients, I have seen simple people become significant and creative in their own spheres as they have developed more trust of the processes going on within themselves and have dared to feel their own feelings, live by values which they discover within, and express themselves in their own unique ways
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� Carl R.Rogers, On Becoming a Person p 175
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
While there are so many quotables I can mention, I must post the following section for the benefit of any creative that seeks an understanding of what makes himself or herself tick.
As a creative, you must ultimately be yourself and create from that place of a unique perspective.
Derrick Trimble
Toward Trust of Self
Still another way of describing this pattern which I see in each client is to say that increasingly he trusts and values the process which is himself. Watching my clients, I have come to a much better understanding of creative people.
El Greco, for example, must have realised as he looked at some of his early work, that “good artists do not paint like that.� But somehow he trusted his own experiencing of life, the process of himself, sufficiently that he could go on expressing his own unique perceptions. It was as though he could say, “good artists do not paint like this, but I paint like this.�
Where to move to another field, Ernest Hemingway was surely aware that “good writers do not write like this.� but Fortunately he moved toward being Hemingway, being himself. Rather Then drawing back because of his inadequate academic preparation in physics, he simply moved toward being Einstein, toward thinking his own thoughts, toward being as truly and deeply himself as he could.
This is not a phenomenon which occurs only in the artists or the genius. Time and again in my clients, I have seen simple people become significant and creative in their own spheres as they have developed more trust of the processes going on within themselves and have dared to feel their own feelings, live by values which they discover within, and express themselves in their own unique ways
.
� Carl R.Rogers, On Becoming a Person p 175
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
