“The Eureka Factor” and Your Creative Brain

“The Eureka Factor” and Your Creative Brain

A creative insight can be as small as landing on an angle for a blog post or as big as discovering a fresh angle for a new book or business launch.

The moment you gain such an insight flashes like lightning – and vanishes like lightning. If you are not prone to pay attention to such moments, you likely will lose the insight and certainly not be able to replicate the conditions to have such insights again.

But can you become aware of such moments? And can you replicate them?

Why entrepreneurs & creatives succumb to bedtime procrastination

Why entrepreneurs & creatives succumb to bedtime procrastination

Let’s root bedtime procrastination within another conversation, the one about how we work and how we spend our time and attention outside of work in nourishing ways. Let’s call “how we spend our time and attention outside of work in nourishing ways as ends unto themselves” as “self-care.”

The question I’m hearing in several circles is this: Are we spending too much time working? Let’s be more specific: Are you spending too much time working?

I Promise to Give

I Promise to Give

Maybe we hold back because we fear we’ll be taken from or that we’ll run out of ideas.

The funny thing is this: When you create something, the very process of creating creates more ideas. When you see that something you created makes a difference to someone, you wake up driven to create more. When you solve one person’s problem, you feel fueled to discover other solutions.