Hello, Wild Pack, I’ve spent a couple of hours this morning at Google Creative Labs for a special talk & tour called “Making Good Things Happen That Matter.” The event is arranged by the organizers of The 99% Conference, which launches later today. Google’s changed our brains (according to some thinkers also reviewed in The…
Radio show host Grace Allison interviewed me for her show “Be Your Own Superhero.” We cover a range of topics such as trumping the reptile brain, staying in fertile confusion to handle creative challenges, encouraging colleges to orient freshmen to disorientation, and using the single most direct and effective tool for creative superheroes. The Reptile…
It’s Earth Day tomorrow, and chances are you’ll spend hours in front of a computer or other digital device and only minutes outdoors. Why would entrepreneurs and creatives and business people wanting to hone their edge need to take a walk or hike or, you know, plant a tree if they didn’t have to?
“Chance favors the connected mind.” – Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From I’ve been wondering about connectivity. Steven Johnson stumbled upon some fascinating insights regarding connectivity while investigating just what his new book’s title says – where good ideas come from. Most great ideas take years to develop. One person has a half idea….
Crafting an authentic, creative life is challenging. But that is just what you choose to do – you who refuse to make a cookie-cutter family or live in a predictable relationship or function like an automaton at your job or spend your weekends doing default mass-non-think activities. You choose to craft this one wild life….
Note: On April 8, 1973, artist Pablo Picasso died at his home near Mougins, France, at age 91. Did you ever love an artist when you were a girl or boy? I mean, really adore and idolize him or her the way some kids do pop stars and athletes? If so, how is that love…
One of my favorite creativity blogs is Mark McGuinness’s Lateral Action. Based in London, Mark is a poet who consults with entrepreneurs, creatives, and businesses. Sound familiar? He’s on the board of a literary magazine – one I published in a dozen years ago. He was a reluctant entrepreneur. He is a kindred spirit. So,…
Tracking Wonder Here you are on the first day of spring ready to track wonder. You stand at the door of the house of your world holding your field guides a compass a map and instruments to make marks across a page across a canvas or lens cross your heart and hope to live before…
Curious about Tracking Wonder events? Each one’s unique. The one in Taos, New Mexico kicks off this evening (Read here to learn more about Mabel Dodge, her house that we rent, and her role in creative collaboration with O’Keeffe, SH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, and others.). Here’s what we’re up to this week that might interest…
Questions in the Hut Today: Are creatives just born with the ‘persistence gene’ and the ‘discipline gene’? If not, how do you cultivate persistence? What’s the physiology of creative persistence? As a creative, you’re familiar with these two problems. # 1: You have a stellar idea. For a novel. Business. Workshop. But you’ve been disappointed…
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