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How to Retrieve That Astonishing Feeling Every Day: The First Preparation
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How to Retrieve That Astonishing Feeling Every Day: The First Preparation

As a creative, sometimes you forget your purpose and you “to-do” more than “ta-da!” One of my clients recently lost his way and it nearly derailed his creative project. He works as a consultant for a high-pressure corporation (redundant?) organizing international events, orchestrating public relations videos, and even finessing promotional copy. Plus, he and his…

Open & Nourish Your Mystery Box – Only 5 Spots Left
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Open & Nourish Your Mystery Box – Only 5 Spots Left

When I was a tow-headed boy, The Box in the Woods down the road kept my secrets. In the middle of The Woods towered a maple, an “X” carved with a butter knife in its bark. With no other kids in sight, I’d scatter the leaf shards, dig a few inches of dirt with the…

Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields: A Quick Book Review
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Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields: A Quick Book Review

As a guy whose advice for creatives to flourish often goes something like “Find yourself in getting lost” and “Move toward the difficult,” and as a guy who shucked a comfy sure-thing academic job twelve years ago to pursue something as nebulous as my writing life mixed with a then-non-existent field of “yoga & creativity,”…

Story-telling, Truth, & Cold Blood: Archived Interview w/Moneyball Director Bennet Miller
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Story-telling, Truth, & Cold Blood: Archived Interview w/Moneyball Director Bennet Miller

In February 2006 – weeks following the Oscar-winning Capote’s release and just weeks before the Oscars were announced  –  I had the good fortune to interview the film’s director Bennet Miller about the boundaries between truth and fiction in both documentaries and features and even about the boyhood roots for telling stories via camera. Miller’s…

Save a Life, Do Great Work, & Buy a Book: Tracking Wonder Interviews Michael Bungay Stanier
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Save a Life, Do Great Work, & Buy a Book: Tracking Wonder Interviews Michael Bungay Stanier

I have big dreams and desires for being part of a cause that reaches far, far beyond the needs of myself, my loved ones, and even of the people with whom I work. But I still wonder how and when I will get there and what that cause is.  Do you fidget with this selfless…

What’s Happened to Booze as Muse?
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What’s Happened to Booze as Muse?

Booze as Muse for Yesterday’s Literary Stars A young and mostly unknown Ernest Hemingway met the newly celebrated F. Scott Fitzgerald allegedly in Paris’s Dingo Bar, a common hang out for ex-pat writers. That year, 1925, Scribner’s Sons had published The Great Gatsby, a book which helped make the young blond writer from Minnesota America’s…

Creativity & Wisdom: How Curiosity + Focus on the Craft + Steady Action Override Doubt & Anxiety
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Creativity & Wisdom: How Curiosity + Focus on the Craft + Steady Action Override Doubt & Anxiety

Andrew Zuckerman had three minutes to shoot a portrait of Nelson Mandela. The 30-year-old photographer had no training or experience in taking portraits – other than the ones he had taken the previous few weeks of Henry Kissinger, Desmond Tutu, and Ted Kennedy. Despite that green resume, Zuckerman landed the project of a lifetime by…

Quick Quotes from Start With Why Author Simon Sinek’s Talk at the 99% Conference
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Quick Quotes from Start With Why Author Simon Sinek’s Talk at the 99% Conference

Down the road from Obama’s visit to Ground Zero and down the road from Trump’s Tower, a group of fresh-minded designers, entrepreneurs, consultants, writers, and artists met to talk about business in a way that Trump would never understand. Terms like “humanity,” “meaning,” “freedom,” “purpose,” “energy,” and “human-to-human connection” were volleyed so often this afternoon…