Published in About Me Stories·PinnedAbout Me — DP MaviaOnce Upon My Short Story …. — Graduation I graduated with a Degree in Education and was legally given power to be a High School Literature teacher. I met one of my Lecturer years afterwards and she confessed that the Degree was designed to nurture us to be Literally Critics not Teachers of Literature. It did not…Art3 min read
Nov 26, 2020How Art is Made— DP MaviaPoints on How to Activate The Viable Threat In Read and Write Jean Paul Satre’s biography he sites that he is like a knight in shining armor for his audience. He says he saves them by writing. …Art5 min read
Nov 25, 2020The Problem Solving Mindset — DP MaviaHow to train your Brain to produce a Mind. Dr. Carol Dweck is a Mindset expert. In she wrote the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (2006). The big takeaway in her groundbreaking work is the difference between a Growth Mindset and a Fixed Mindset. …Creativity4 min read
Sep 22, 2020How to Take a Risk — DP MaviaMost people have lodged in the mind the adage that ‘you take calculated risks’. How can true risk be calculated? This presupposes that there needs to be a certain if not sufficient information that makes you take a risk. The truth is, you cannot jump blindly into a pursuit or…Risk3 min read
Sep 18, 2020Mentoring Generations — How to make Them See — DP MaviaMentoring is slowly but surely becoming a marketplace by word. Mentoring is important but modern-day market spaces have easily turned it into more of a product or a program than a necessary component of cross-relational value. The most common narrative of mentoring is the old versus the young. It is…Mentoring5 min read
Sep 17, 2020Two Hours a Writer — DP MaviaI have been gazing at the white space and tapping my keyboard without writing a word for the last two months. I had this incredible idea that this year my writing would be hard and regular. The sweetness of reading about writing has the deceptive side of thinking that reading about writing is writing itself. After you have read and been ‘inspired’ you perspire under the guilt of not writing the next morning and become a writer who defines himself in the ‘wish’ tense (I wish I had written).Writer3 min read
Aug 18, 2020Value as a Support System for Discipline in Art and Creativity — DP MaviaI the other day I wrote a short article titled Discipline as A support System for Art and Creativity. A full reading can be found when you click on the link. In the article I highlighted that Art needs discipline and commitment for it to see the light of day…Value5 min read
Aug 17, 2020Every Art Needs a Plan — DP MaviaThe Ideas of art can drop in your heart or mind from a place of spontaneity or from an unknown inspiration center. In order to develop work or works of art, in order for you to pursue a career or a repertoire you must do that by following a plan. …Art3 min read
Jul 27, 2020Four Things that Hinder Your Art — DP MaviaArt is thinking and production. Art is theory and practice. Sometimes there are seasons of production of art, where we get stuck to produce or even to conceptualize art. I have found myself starring into the blank page hoping that something will be triggered or inspire some form of creative…Art5 min read
Mar 13, 2018How to Deal with Your Harshest Art Critics — DP MaviaI have just published a book and the excitement of having it distributed is great. This has been a long awaited process finally bearing fruit and lending itself to public consumption. Good reviews have trickled in so far and those, they can be quite elating. But with equal measure remarks…Art5 min read