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[caption id="attachment_6634" align="alignnone" width="620"] Image via Flickr[/caption] CreativeLive CEO Chase Jarvis will quickly tell you: He's a great quitter.   He's quit all kinds of things, from various sports to med school.

[caption id="attachment_6606" align="alignnone" width="650"] Beautifully color-balanced skin. Photo by Lindsay Adler[/caption] Flawless skin is essential in glamour and fashion photography, but even models with a clear complexion can look uneven in less-than-ideal lighting.

[caption id="attachment_6560" align="alignnone" width="620"] By Sonja Langford[/caption] It's debatable whether or not the eight-hour workday works for everyone – or even anyone – mostly because it's darn near impossible to plop down in front of a computer and just hit the productivity switch. For freelancers, it can be even more challenging, as the distractions of a home office, the internet, or, you know, a life, begin to slowly eat away at the time when you should be working.

Chances are, if you took an informal poll around the water cooler, bar, or coffee creamer stand, you’d meet at least one person grinding away at a day job, but passionate about a project on the side. And it’s easy to name the big side project success stories -- Amazon started in a garage!

This week, NPR reported on a study that found that the human brain, regardless of a person's perceived ability to keep a beat, can still keep time. The findings further underscored a long-running theory that music truly is a universal human language, as old as time and as thoroughly rooted in our brains as the need to breathe.

Typically, the only element of the creative process that the public sees is the outcome. We totally miss the essential and often rocky developments that bring a project to fruition.