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“The Eureka Factor” and Your Creative Brain
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“The Eureka Factor” and Your Creative Brain

A creative insight can be as small as landing on an angle for a blog post or as big as discovering a fresh angle for a new book or business launch.

The moment you gain such an insight flashes like lightning – and vanishes like lightning. If you are not prone to pay attention to such moments, you likely will lose the insight and certainly not be able to replicate the conditions to have such insights again.

But can you become aware of such moments? And can you replicate them?

Why entrepreneurs & creatives succumb to bedtime procrastination

Why entrepreneurs & creatives succumb to bedtime procrastination

Let’s root bedtime procrastination within another conversation, the one about how we work and how we spend our time and attention outside of work in nourishing ways. Let’s call “how we spend our time and attention outside of work in nourishing ways as ends unto themselves” as “self-care.”

The question I’m hearing in several circles is this: Are we spending too much time working? Let’s be more specific: Are you spending too much time working?

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Here’s to the true creative heroes.

Here’s to the creative heroes – the people you admire and who reflect the best in you back.

The people who risk their comfort to make part of the world a little better.

The people who will not be hushed, squashed, or swept aside in service of their creative medicine.

The people who still work hard every day because they find value in real work and in the soul of craft.

I Promise to Give
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I Promise to Give

Maybe we hold back because we fear we’ll be taken from or that we’ll run out of ideas.

The funny thing is this: When you create something, the very process of creating creates more ideas. When you see that something you created makes a difference to someone, you wake up driven to create more. When you solve one person’s problem, you feel fueled to discover other solutions.

Prioritize Possibility in 2015 (webinar w/ Jeffrey Davis)
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Prioritize Possibility in 2015 (webinar w/ Jeffrey Davis)

Many moons ago, I let one project after another drive me. You know the impulse. You or your team can chase after one project after another.  An Etsy shop. A new tool or product. A new book. A new studio. A new podcast show. A new interview series. A new workshop. But living in Project Land…

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…

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…