Other writers are urging us to take matters into our own hands, to pick up a pen and paper rather than our phones each morning. The creativity guru Julia Cameron has published a daily companion to her 1992 blockbuster The Artist’s Way, and Katy Hessel’s How to Live An Artful Life similarly offers 366 inspiring quotes and prompts. Ben Luke’s What is Art For? and Lydia Figes’ Survival Notes are compendiums of advice and insights from contemporary artists including Anish Kapoor, Tracey Emin, Wolfgang Tillmans and Dayanita Singh. Unlike many self-help manuals, these books urge us to connect with our inner selves by taking time to reflect on the outside world, to lose ourselves in art. In our era of self-optimisation and life-hacking, this is a quietly radical shift.