Beyond the Paradox of Loving What You Do
The Paradox of Loving What You Do A funny paradox: We love to love what we do. Yet, we sometimes fear that if we learn too much about how what we do works, the love will vanish. As if increased…
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The Most Important Feature of Author Platforms
When Keith Richards steps onto stage, a specific horde pays big bucks to be part of him and hear his inimitable riffs on the guitar. When David Sedaris steps onto stage, a smaller but sizable crowd pays a fair sum…
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Books that Matter to Julie Metz
For years, Julie Metz thought she lived the perfect life – the perfect marriage, perfect brownstone, perfect career, perfect family. She tells her story of betrayal and renewal in her New York Times best-selling memoir Perfection. Where some people would…
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From Fear Toward Creative Mastery
The piece on The Apprenticeship Gap prompted lots of thoughtful discussion about amateurs, apprentices, artists, masters, and mentors. I also recently corresponded with my friend Tara Mohr, whose work I admire, about the topic. She’s helping me think in new ways about…
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Talking Wild Money, Creativity, & Books with Luna Jaffe
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote – except for money.” That’s the wry view of Samuel Johnson, the reputable British writer and author of, among other titles, The Dictionary of the English Language in the 18th century. If true,…
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For Authors Ready for the Life-Affirming Fact
In the Tower of Babel that is publishing these days, it’s easy for authors to get distracted and to side-track their creative process in favor of over-thinking viable creative products. The push to publish and profit can override the hardest fact. I’m offering…
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Why We Have a Widening Apprenticeship Gap
THERE’S A GAP CAUSING A LOT OF UNSPOKEN PAIN, SHAME, CONFUSION, AND FRUSTRATION. I want to speak up about this gap to see if my perceptions resonate and to see what we together can salve. It’s a gap especially among…
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Jen Louden on the Shadows & Joys to Teach Now
A TRACKING WONDER Conversation with Jen Louden & How We Can Step Up & Teach Now (+ smashing hard-boiled eggs, feeling like fried leather, getting out of fish bowls, why we have no time for sacred fetuses, & lots of…
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State Of Wonder Annual Dispatch
Since 2005 – when wonder seemed endangered – I have kept my eye and ear on writers, designers, musicians and artists, and I also have turned an eye and ear toward entrepreneurs, educators, and CEOs. And in so doing eventually founded Tracking Wonder Consulting & Programs to assure…
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Harness Your Creative Potential with These 3 Knowledge Points.
An extraordinarily talented and highly recognized actress and writer called me last week. She sent me a list of 15-plus projects she wants to work on. Now. All at once. How does she prioritize? Why should she? Such good questions…
