Life isn\u2019t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n And there\u2019s no question the former Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minnesota did a magnificent job of creating the artist, Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n But there were some pieces to the \u201cDylan myth\u201d that he found.<\/p>\n He found music on the radio when he was quite young. He discovered the guitar. He unearthed the poets from Rimbaud to Kerouac. He found Woody Guthrie, Suze Rotolo, and Joan Baez.<\/p>\n And all the while he was finding things, he was also creating.<\/p>\n It strikes me that \u201cfinding yourself\u201d and \u201ccreating yourself\u201d is not binary.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not either\/or.<\/p>\n I suggest it\u2019s both. Indeed, I see it as a process.<\/p>\n First, you find some things you are drawn to. Pay attention, now. What do you like? What do you like to do?<\/p>\n You then start to store up these ideas and actions and they become encoded in your brain. And once you have these pieces, you start to put them together in the puzzle that becomes\u2026you.<\/p>\n The process?<\/p>\n From hunting and gathering to making.<\/p>\n From searching to creating.<\/p>\n And from creating to being.<\/p>\n As Dylan sings: \u201cMay you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung.\u201d<\/p>\n Who are you?<\/p>\n It begins with what have you been finding.<\/p>\n Rob Schwartz is the Chair of the TBWA New York Group and an executive coach who channels his creativity, experience and wisdom into helping others get where they want to be. This was originally posted on his Substack, RobSchwartzHelps<\/a>, where he covers work, life, and creativity<\/em>.<\/p>\n Header image: Beno\u00eet Deschasaux<\/a> for Unsplash+; photo of album cover courtesy of the author<\/em><\/p>\n The post Find Yourself or Create Yourself?<\/a> appeared first on PRINT Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love this quote from Bob Dylan. Life isn\u2019t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. Self-Portrait album by Bob Dylan And there\u2019s no question the former Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minnesota did a magnificent job of creating the artist, Bob Dylan. But there were some pieces to the \u201cDylan myth\u201d that he found. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.storybooksaintbernards.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.storybooksaintbernards.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.storybooksaintbernards.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.storybooksaintbernards.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.storybooksaintbernards.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.storybooksaintbernards.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"http:\/\/www.storybooksaintbernards.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.storybooksaintbernards.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.storybooksaintbernards.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.storybooksaintbernards.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.storybooksaintbernards.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.printmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/7f1be531-5014-480c-8ab2-d3323f3631c8_600x629.jpg?resize=600%2C629&quality=89&ssl=1\")
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