The Courage to Create When Rollo May was a boy, his mother often left him alone with his schizophrenic sister. He learned early to empathize with those who view reality differently, and he learned early how to fend for himself….
When William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he implored the then-younger, perhaps more jaded writers to exhibit this quality. The next year, John Steinbeck followed suit and called for it as well. Maxine Hong Kingston has called it…
Here’s what I’ve been hearing: Something in us aches to be free and brave to create what matters. To take risks to stand up and stand out. To tell the Story we know must be told. But time dogs us….
http://youtu.be/Ozc4nBvprFY For anyone yearning to be heard. For anyone whose voice feels caged in a cubicle or sliced on a chopping board. For anyone whose Muse still battles Time and Mind and Circumstance. For anyone ready to shape a glorious…
Where Your Wilds Things Are You know the feeling. Something almost wild resides inside you. A bold idea. A bold story. A bold way of doing or viewing something. Let’s call it a Wild Idea. Let’s say a Wild…
I know you want to take a day off but may need to retrain yourself on how to loaf. Here are two pieces from the Tracking Wonder archives to help you make Memorial Day a day of productive loafing –…
Branding is part and parcel of who we are as thing-making, idea-shaping, experience-crafting creatures. Few people have helped me weave meaning and mission into brand-making for myself and clients more than Marty Neumeier. Marty is Director of Transformation at Liquid…
I was an anxious boy, quiet, often distracted to daydream and doodle. The lovely Ms. Goodman scolded me at six years old for connecting the dots. My pencil was linking the bubbles in my science textbook illustration while my eyes…
What could an agent possibly offer a novelist whose self-published ebooks are bringing in five figures a month? That’s what self-published science fiction novelist Hugh Howey wanted to know when Kristin Nelson had the gumption to call. “I don’t know,”…
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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