Twenty years ago, conversations around creativity revolved around creative thinking. Lateral thinking. Metaphorical thinking. Design thinking. Those thinking models remain useful, but what we talk about when we talk about creativity today exceeds creative thinking. We talk about living creatively…
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…
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.
“Creativity” and “business” have become inextricable for surprising reasons. Not only have corporations appropriated creativity as their flag for uniqueness. The revolution I’m witnessing also comes from another direction – business artists and creative shakers & makers who are changing…
If you think the ingredients for a great story include Southern accents, unlikable likable characters, crime, and surprising yet inevitable twists with generous doses of dark humor, then you probably know John Dufresne’s work. About his fifth novel – No…
The thing is, we don’t get stuck at the beginning of writing a book. We don’t get stuck in the middle of writing a book. We don’t get stuck in publishing a book.
We get stuck in the story of being stuck itself.
Every writer has dormant potential to be realized. Potential is not static, and pre-programmed It’s not an, “Either you have writing potential or you don’t” proposition.
Your potential is like dynamic water.
When harnessed, your potential rises and rushes forward in full power.
And it serves entities far greater than your little self.
You have a book running through you. If you can find the methods, habits, and support to harness it, you can step out of the Amateur Bubble and step into the Apprentice-Artist Arena and ultimately flourish in the Artist-Maestro Stadium.
Anyone can do this.
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…
To teach is an honor. To practice what you teach is rare. Personal growth pioneer Jen Louden is rare on many counts.
There are thought leaders, and there are Thought Leaders.(1) And Seth Godin is the latter. Why? Godin is a Thought Leader not only because he’s smart. It’s not only because he’s prolific and creative. Godin is an archetypal Thought Leader because…
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