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Jason Silva gives a shot of awe to #Quest2015
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Jason Silva gives a shot of awe to #Quest2015

Take a little Bucky Fuller’s visionary views of the planet and architecture and technology, throw in Terrence McKenna’s views of the mind and evolution, and mix it with a Richard Branson-like optimism and an impassioned artist’s fervor and sensibility for imagination and what we make in and of this world, and you get Shots of Awe…

How a feeling became a manifesto became a movement #Quest2015
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How a feeling became a manifesto became a movement #Quest2015

Every once in a while a feeling seizes me. It often comes while writing something seemingly different from the feeling. Last April, I kept feeling something not just about me but about us. Something to do with our mutual frustration with business as unusual and with the phrase that hasn’t left me for two years – business…

Fantasies of freedom can trap creatives & entrepreneurs

Fantasies of freedom can trap creatives & entrepreneurs

What if our perceived lack of freedom has less to do with our “online 24/7” times?

What if our experience of freedom has everything to do with how we regard our time, direct our mind, and guide our actions each day and week strategically or not, artfully or not?

What if the Artfully Scheduled Life, when shaped artfully and strategically, could actually lead to more fulfillment and a different kind of freedom?

Less Labor Works Better: The Value of Mind-Wandering

Less Labor Works Better: The Value of Mind-Wandering

“The United States is the only advanced economy in the world that does not guarantee its workers paid vacation. … The gap between paid time off in the United States and the rest of the world is even larger if we include legally mandated paid holidays, where the United States offer none, but most of…

Own how the world sees your creative genius. 
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Own how the world sees your creative genius. 

“It is not generally acknowledged or discussed, but the personality we project to the world plays a substantial role in our success and in our ascension to mastery.” – Robert Greene, Mastery A young Sally Hogshead’s genius wanted to stand out. Her brother’s intellectual genius got him into Harvard. Her older sister’s athletic genius sent…