Vision + Mastery for No-Goals Creatives this New Year
Gist: Vision and mastery can make goal-setting palatable for creatives. I never make New Year’s resolutions. (I don’t feel so bad knowing that Luck Factor author and [...]
The 48-Hour Sulk Rule & the Creative’s Occupational Hazard: An Interview with Mark McGuinness, Part II
In working with so many creatives and entrepreneurs over the years, I’ve found that we generally react – initially – to rejection and criticism in one of two extreme ways. One: [...]
The Psychology of Rejection & Criticism: An Interview with Mark McGuinness, Part I
Just the thought of receiving criticism for ideas and works – especially creative ones – can paralyze otherwise successful people. And yet experience and research keep bearing the [...]
3 Ways Creatives Can Invite Darkness to Play (+ a video poem)
“In the middle of our life journey I found myself in a dark wood. I had wandered from the straight path. It isn’t to talk about it: it was such a think, wild, and rough forest that when I think [...]
The Thinking Body Behind Brainpickings
Here’s something for you to think about – or jump about, as it were. Body Thinking Helen Keller visited Martha Graham’s studios several times in the 1930s when Merce Cunningham was part of [...]
What We Really Long for in a Retreat from Work (& a chance to do so)
Every seven years, Stefan Sagmeister and his entire New York City-based design firm take the year off from work. They don’t vacate. They incubate, experiment, and play with ideas they otherwise [...]
