Down the road from Obama’s visit to Ground Zero and down the road from Trump’s Tower, a group of fresh-minded designers, entrepreneurs, consultants, writers, and artists met to talk about business in a way that Trump would never understand. Terms like “humanity,” “meaning,” “freedom,” “purpose,” “energy,” and “human-to-human connection” were volleyed so often this afternoon…
Hello, Wild Pack, I’ve spent a couple of hours this morning at Google Creative Labs for a special talk & tour called “Making Good Things Happen That Matter.” The event is arranged by the organizers of The 99% Conference, which launches later today. Google’s changed our brains (according to some thinkers also reviewed in The…
Radio show host Grace Allison interviewed me for her show “Be Your Own Superhero.” We cover a range of topics such as trumping the reptile brain, staying in fertile confusion to handle creative challenges, encouraging colleges to orient freshmen to disorientation, and using the single most direct and effective tool for creative superheroes. The Reptile…
“Chance favors the connected mind.” – Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From I’ve been wondering about connectivity. Steven Johnson stumbled upon some fascinating insights regarding connectivity while investigating just what his new book’s title says – where good ideas come from. Most great ideas take years to develop. One person has a half idea….
Crafting an authentic, creative life is challenging. But that is just what you choose to do – you who refuse to make a cookie-cutter family or live in a predictable relationship or function like an automaton at your job or spend your weekends doing default mass-non-think activities. You choose to craft this one wild life….
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 of articles about mastering that slippery thing called “voice.” Have fun. * * * Part…
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.
Mabel Dodge knew something about putting talented, engaging people from different backgrounds and creative media in the same room. With the right atmosphere and combination of people, ideas could ignite that might inspire creative action (including, yes, a few love affairs). This New York socialite left the Manhattan glitter in the 1920s for the stark…
Wonder is pervasive yet evasive. This point became remarkably clear again when some 3,000 bloggers responded to the prompt I offered for Gwen Bell and her team’s sensational Reverb10 Project: Wonder. How have you cultivated a sense of wonder in your life this year? According to the posts, wonder filled many bloggers’ year. Others bemoaned…
Does receiving gratitude inspire you to more creative action? Is it easy for you to express it? Is it easy for you to receive it? Dare I ask, are there ‘advantages’ for creative practitioners and entrepreneurs to practicing gratitude? Those questions I’ve been living in for a few weeks. Entrepreneur and perspiration guru Scott Belsky…
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