How Business Artists Quest on the Job
The creative life is romantic and problem-free? Myth. The creative mindset, the questing mindset, expects problems as part of the job. So much depends upon “how” those problems are approached.
Story Architecture Meets Tracking Wonder
When Jonah Berger was a teenager, his grandmother gave him a copy of Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point (2000). The book tells the story about how ideas become influential. The young Berger relished the intellectual journey Gladwell took him on….
No easy promises to write a brave new story
Easy promises to write a book actually can destroy your self-confidence.
Buzzing stories versus your Brave Story
And I wrote every day. Because I had to. Because it burned in me. Because we just don’t have much time. Because the Waiting Room is not a place to live. Because the Waiting Room is a place where something true and brave in us can die.
Be Brave – A Poem-Film for Authors & Business Artists
You may have a Story burning inside you. It’s a Story about a new way of living. A Story about a girl who gets whisked into another world. A Story about a new way of leading or of investing in what matters. A Story about a young man who loses everything but his hope. A Story that only your business, your brand, your imagination, your life unfolds.
It’s a Story that needs to rise above the World of Buzz and a Story that someone out here needs to hear.
The talent every expert & creative needs every day
A key talent to tracking wonder relates to openness, and it very well may be the talent that every creative professional – especially the experienced ones, the experts, the accomplished ones – needs to practice every day.
Shape time to write.
What if you could relate to time like art to sculpt instead of as a force to curse? I’ll make this quick because I know your clock time is finite. Many of my clients have learned to shape time to…
Renew Your Vows to Wonder
Cultivating wonder renews how we create, relate to each other, and experience every day. Maybe it is our adult responsibility not to abdicate wonder to children. Maybe it is our responsibility to co-make an adult world infused with wonder so that children cannot wait to become grown ups and make more of it.
Myths About Writing Talent vs. The Writer’s Inner Game
Myth #1: Successful, gratified writers mostly have talent. Myth #2: Marketing & platform-building are the most important qualities for any writer to have a long-term career these days. A few years ago, a question troubled me. Among the many creatives…
Loners and Lovers: Advice for Creatives
In college, I ogled over a smoky black-and-white photograph of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. In their book-flooded study, Jean-Paul sits at his desk on one end of the room, and on the other side Simone sits at hers….
