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…
Time & wonder are partners at this blog and in our Outpost Shoppe. In fact, the Mind Rooms Guide came out of my own experience coupled with my research into time, creative minds, and wonder. As the video below explains, a…
Three things about creative or writing talent:
Talent is not all you need to succeed or feel gratified in your field.
Talent often is dormant. You can cultivate and bring it out.
If you don’t have talent, you can make up for it and potentially become more successful and gratified than someone with talent and not other qualities beyond talent.
Sometimes a book can rattle open such deep recognition that the door remains ajar for the rest of your life. It’s taken me a long time to realize that simple truth. I’ve always been slow to the take, at least…
Pursuing excellence is not obsessing about perfection. Pursuing – not achieving – excellence is about letting our best selves show up to do the best work we’re meant to do with the best finesse we can learn and muster.
Years ago, when I heard the word “branding” I admittedly thought of cattle burned, owned, and herded. Where was the art? The creativity? The humanity of trying to herd people into buying something? But as a creative-entrepreneur, I’ve since radically…
Today we honor an uncompromising dreamer. Today we honor the inauguration of another four-year cycle. Today we honor a country full of uncompromising dreamers. And today perhaps we inaugurate a new association that Martin Luther King called for in 1963.
I have returned from the Digital Book World Conference ever more curious about the future state of publishing. This morning, Jeremy Greenfield, Forbes columnist and one of the generous-minded founders, wrote this: Publishers are grappling with the possibility that bookstores…
Hyperlink used to be big news. Ten, fifteen years ago, a few writers speculated about how html and hyperlink might change the way we read fiction. The ideas around hyperlink stories seemed too far ahead of their time, disruptive digital…
NOT ALL RETREATS, PERSONAL OR GROUP, ARE EQUAL. I’ve taken countless retreats for my writing and business projects, and I’ve led numerous retreats in Taos, Woodstock, Greece, Nova Scotia for authors & writers, artists, designers, consultants, thought leaders. What factors…
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