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…
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…
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…
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. #…
Note: We’re hungry to master our craft. At least judging from the questions readers and clients have sent me, we are. And judging from the research about what motivates us, we are. The following is the third in a series…
Tara Sophia Mohr is one of those people I sense that I could talk with for hours and never grow bored. She’s often described as “the mystic in the Ivy League and the poet in the business school classroom.” A…
Note: Several writers, bloggers, and web-preneurs ask me questions about “finding their voice.” I suggest you won’t find it. You’ll craft it. And you’ll craft it by studying your medium. Your medium is not the web. That’s the vehicle. Your…
No doubt innovative solutions often burst out of two or more creatives’ rapping, dancing, and collaborating together. Steven Johnson makes the case in Where Good Ideas Come From. Social psychologists make the case. Joshua Wolf Shenk makes the case in…
Organizations are wising up to the value of hosting their own dynamic conferences. And these conferences aren’t the drab, flat talking-head, name tag, cheese-n-crackers affairs. You’d be wise to add “Attend Creative Conference” to your Creative Action Checklist for 2011.
Note: Many of my clients (writers, freelancers, web-reneurs, entrepreneurs) and workshop participants struggle with this thing called “voice.” We all do. It’s elusive. Professional writer or not, you likely rely on words to cast a portrait of who you are…
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