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…
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.
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…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tm9pWNXOJM Do fewer things better. Find the power in less striving. Make spaces in each day.
Gist: Vision and mastery can make goal-setting palatable for creatives. I never make New Year’s resolutions. (I don’t feel so bad knowing that Luck Factor author and psychologist Richard Wiseman’s study points out this practice’s futility.) I used to never make goals. I…
Just the thought of receiving criticism for ideas and works – especially creative ones – can paralyze otherwise successful people. And yet experience and research keep bearing the same dictum: Criticism and even rejection don’t just “make us stronger.” They…
Every seven years, Stefan Sagmeister and his entire New York City-based design firm take the year off from work. They don’t vacate. They incubate, experiment, and play with ideas they otherwise would never give themselves time and space for. Most…
The idea seemed innovative in early 2010. An iPhone app that lets users share their whereabouts with their friends. Afterall, Foursquare had come out around 2009 and made digital real estate all about location, location, location. In fact, to Kevin…
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